Backing up oracle before applying patchset

I am about to patch an Oracle database from 9.2.0.1 to 9.2.0.6. The readme doc which comes with this patchset, suggests to 'backup the oracle installation'. There are no more details about this. By oracle installation, I must assume it's referring to the binaries of the oracle rdbms, right? If so, which directories i must backup? Is $ORACLE_HOME enough?
thanks
james

Oracle_home backup
and
Oracle Database Backup
because after running installer u have to run script on database.
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Kuljeet

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