Need a tool to create Development and Test instance of a Production db

I am very new to Oracle and have previously worked with SQL Server 2005/8 only.
My current company only has one instance of the Oracle database (which is production) and until now, all development and testing used to take place on the same instance (what a mess!!).
Anyways, we have now decided to create a development and test on a separate physical machine. We are on Oracle 11g on Windows 2008 Server.
In SQL Server, it used to be fairly simple, just take a full backup of the database and restore it on another box with SQL Server and we had a new instance of the same database.
Can someone point out a simple technique to create these development and test instance in Oracle. Essentially, we want to clone the database. Are there any tools available that can make this task simple.
Thanks.

Welcome the the forums !
I believe this question is better suited to the "Database - General" forum (General Database Discussions but here is my take.
You will first need to clone the Oracle binaries (ORACLE_HOME) - see MOS Doc 1154613.1 (Master Note For Cloning Oracle Database Server ORACLE_HOME's Using the Oracle Universal Installer (OUI))
Then clone the database - see MOS Doc 458450.1 (Steps to Manually Clone a Database)
HTH
Srini

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