Install Oracle database server
Make sure that you have at least 1G swap space on your machine. Install oracle on separate machine if there are not to much memory available. Minimum reasonable config for XE: 1G if this machine will be used only as oracle server and 1.5 G if we will to run CONTROL on the same machine
rpm -U /u2/programs/databases_and_odbc/oracle-xe-10.2.0.1-1.0.i386.rpm
Set password for user oracle. Move datafile to somewhere where you have enough space (if there are more than 1 hard drive it is much better to use one for oracle database):
/etc/init.d stop mv /usr/lib/oracle/xe/oradata /u2/somewhere ln -s /u2/somewhere/oradata /usr/lib/oracle/xe/oradata /etc/init.d start
Install Oracle database client
(if we want to run CONTROL and database on separate machines)
rpm -U /u2/programs/databases_and_odbc/oracle-xe-client-10.2.0.1-1.0.i386.rpm
include in .bash_profile for all users who will use sql or control program:
. /usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server/bin/oracle_env.sh # (if database on the same machine) OR . /usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/client/bin/oracle_env.sh # (if database located on different machine)
Backup database using rman (always make at least one backup even on empty database!)
sqlplus >connect as sysdba >SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATE; >startup nomount; >quit rman >connect target / >mount database >BACKUP DATABASE INCLUDE CURRENT CONTROLFILE; >quit cp -f /ccdev/coname/*.idx /backupdir
Recover
all the same, then instead of BACKUP DATABASE
>recover database; >quit cp -f /backupdir/*.idx /ccdev/coname/