OBIEE 10g incremental repository migration

Could someone direct me to an Oracle document or previous post that clarifies if incremental OBIEE repository migration utilizing copy/paste between two offline repositories is supported, and if doing so viloates any Oracle warranty? We're on version 10.1.3.2. Thanks.

thanks bifacts. i have reviewed this article before and conducting our migrations the way it describes, but have recently been told that this approach is no longer supported by Oracle (i.e., incremental copy/paste). can you confirm if it's supported? or, to ask another way, are there any Oracle support risks associated to heading down this path?

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