PSA: gDBClone utility is developed by Oracle (Ruggero Citton) to simplify database cloning for non-production instances leveraging ACFS snapshots feature. Download gDBClone-3.0.2-92.noarch.rpm (as of 24Aug2018) export PATH=$PATH:/opt/gDBClone tree /opt/gDBClone/ /opt/gDBClone/ ├── gDBClone └── lib ├── gDBClone_AcfsUtils.pm ├── gDBClone_Clone.pm ├── gDBClone_DBConvert.pm ├── gDBClone_GetDBConnection.pm ├── gDBClone_Inventory.pm ├── gDBClone_LoggingAndTracing.pm ├── gDBClone_passwd.jar ├── gDBClone_PFile.pm ├── gDBClone_Queries.pm ├── gDBClone_Snap.pm ├── … Continue reading gDBClone “GOLD” image and Snapshot database creation →