Database restore on a different server

I have a database ORADB1 running on unix server and I took a hot backup using a script and restored it on the same server as ORADB2 and opened the database to verify it comes up and then shut it down.
Now I have to restore ORADB2 into a different server and bring it up as ORADB1 and I can't take another backup due to performance issue on the server, can someone tell me the steps involved in this?
Thanks

Yes - this would be no different than the way you created ORADB2 from ORADB1 to begin with.
Use the same process by modifying the initialization file. If you use a different directory structure you will need to modify the control file since it specifies the location of the datafiles. You can execute
alter database backup controlfile to traceto put a 'text' copy of the binary control file in a trace file. Then extract the text to a a new file and modify the directory paths for the datafiles.
Just remember that your new ORADB1 will not contain the same data as your original ORADB1 since users have been making changes this entire time.

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user521219 wrote:
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I suspect there is something in controlfile that redirects to \\old_location\FULL\ and doesn't let to read from D:\new_location\Is this a cold backup? Did you change the location of control file in your PFILE or is it still pointing to old location?
You may want to check the output of RESTORE DATABASE PREVIEW command, which will just report which backup files it uses without actually restoring thhe DB.

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