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In this article i will illustrate all steps involved in cloning an Oracle E-Business suite environment using online backup. There are other ways also to do a clone of database with online backup. But in this article I am illustrating rman database cloning with nocatalog option. - Database will be backed up using rman - Application File system will be backed up when all services are up and running. source system - Existing system for which you want to create a new copy target system - New system on which clone is prepared Source and target OS   - oracle solaris 10 - sparc 64-bit Application Version - R12.1.1 Database Version   - 11.1.0.7 High Level Steps: Install all required rapid clone patches from Note "406982.1" on source system if doesn't exists. Run clone preparation script (adpreclone.pl) on database and application Tier Perform full database backup using rman Perform application file system backup using tar/backup too