Best way to clone oracle database

Hi All,
I have to make a clone of my running ora server on new computer as stand-by or some time for testing the taken cold-backup. pls advise the best/quick way to do.
oracle - 8.0.5
OS - Win-NT 4.0
thanks
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Hello,
I'm trying to find the best solution for that case:
On first Unix machine I'm running 10g database. Whole oracle (binary files + datafiles + index + redo) takes about 350GB from my first storage.
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Could you recommend me the best solution for moving database to no. 2. My problem is, that between storage 1. and storage 2. I've only 30MB/s bandwidth, sequence:
1) instance_on_1: shutdown immediate
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