How to Clone 11.2 Oracle Client Software

Client accidently uninstalled Oracle 11.2 Oracle client. Here is the quick way to clone 11.2 Oracle client from another server installations.

Make a tar or zip of the Oracle Client home from another server.

$ tar -cvf 11204.tar ./client_1

2. scp the tar file to the server

3. Untar the file to the location of the same directory path like the source server.

$cd /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0.4

$tar -xvf 11204.tar

4. Clone the home

export ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0.4/client_1

export PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$PATH:

The run the following command in one line:

$ORACLE_HOME/oui/bin/runInstaller -silent -clone ORACLE_BASE="/u01/app/oracle/"  ORACLE_HOME="/u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0.4/client_1" ORACLE_HOME_NAME="Oracle11204_client" -invPtrLoc="/u01/app/oracle/oraInventory"