Clone An Existing RDBMS Installation Using OUI

Hi All,
We have multiple databases running on Oracle 9.2.0.6 ( Linux 2.6.5-7.282-bigsmp #1 SMP Tue Aug 29 10:40:40 UTC 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux)
we were asked to upgrade few instances to 9.2.0.8 .
Our plan is to clone the existing 9.2.0.6 home directory and upgrade the cloned copy and the required databases to 9.2.0.8.
I checked the following article to clone the database ORACLE_HOME.
Note:300062.1 -How To Clone An Existing RDBMS Installation Using OUI
I also found some known issues and bugs with this process.
I would like to know your experiences and suggetions using this aproch.
Thanks in advance for your help.

The best approach depends on which instances you are planning to upgrade. If all the target instances belong to the same Oracle Home, then just open your maintenance window and apply the patch to the oracle home and to each instance belonging to this oracle home.
If only some of the instances belonging to the oracle home are candidates to be upgraded, then clone the oracle home and upgrade it, and upgrade only the instances you are going to move to this cloned oracle home.
Have you also checked this reference:
Oracle® Database Installation Guide
10g Release 2 (10.2) for Linux x86
Part Number B15660-02
Appx B Cloning an Oracle Home
~ Madrid

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