Steps for cloning a RAC 10g database

I would like to clone our production RAC database into my development environment. Can anyone help me by providing the steps to follow? I could not find anything on Metalink. Thanks in advance for your help.

I did the same few days back you can get a lot of help from http://idevelopment.info/ go to RMAN 10g and then Duplicating a Database using RMAN - (UNIX / Linux)
however I would give some of the steps
1. Take a full database backup of your Database using RMAN and catalog database, make sure you include current controlfile.
2. Create a new pfile from the original database pfile or spfile as the case may be.
3. comment out all RAC specific parameters such taht you can use the new pfile to start the database in single instance mode.
4. create a new sid for the new database and start the database in nomount mode using the edited pfile.
5. now connect to RMAN using your present database as target the new database as auxiliary and catalog database.
6. execute the duplicate database command.
7. You may need to do dbfilename convert if your directory structure is not same as of the original database, this is true for ASM too.
8. After the RMAN session ends control file should have been restored at the specified location in the edited pfile.
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in case OMF is being used
9. shutdown the database (it can be in shutdown mode already).
10. Check the name of the controlfile and provide the name in the pfile.
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11. start the database in single instance mode it should start.
12. now shutdown the database and uncomment the RAC specifiv parametors, please chek entries of REMOTE LISTENER etc.
13. register the database and instances with the CRS using srvctl
14. start the database with srvctl
Regards
Rajib.

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allocated channel: aux2
channel aux2: sid=871 devtype=DISK
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set until scn 11188183994442;
set newname for clone datafile 1 to new;
set newname for clone datafile 2 to new;
set newname for clone datafile 3 to new;
set newname for clone datafile 4 to new;
set newname for clone datafile 5 to new;
set newname for clone datafile 6 to new;
set newname for clone datafile 7 to new;
set newname for clone datafile 25 to new;
set newname for clone datafile 26 to new;
set newname for clone datafile 38 to new;
set newname for clone datafile 43 to new;
set newname for clone datafile 44 to new;
set newname for clone datafile 45 to new;
set newname for clone datafile 46 to new;
set newname for clone datafile 47 to new;
set newname for clone datafile 48 to new;
set newname for clone datafile 49 to new;
set newname for clone datafile 50 to new;
set newname for clone datafile 51 to new;
set newname for clone datafile 52 to new;
set newname for clone datafile 53 to new;
set newname for clone datafile 54 to new;
set newname for clone datafile 55 to new;
set newname for clone datafile 56 to new;
set newname for clone datafile 57 to new;
set newname for clone datafile 58 to new;
set newname for clone datafile 59 to new;
set newname for clone datafile 60 to new;
set newname for clone datafile 61 to new;
set newname for clone datafile 62 to new;
set newname for clone datafile 63 to new;
set newname for clone datafile 64 to new;
set newname for clone datafile 65 to new;
set newname for clone datafile 66 to new;
set newname for clone datafile 67 to new;
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restoring datafile 00004 to +LASR
restoring datafile 00006 to +LASR
restoring datafile 00007 to +LASR
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restoring datafile 00045 to +LASR
restoring datafile 00046 to +LASR
restoring datafile 00049 to +LASR
restoring datafile 00051 to +LASR
restoring datafile 00053 to +LASR
restoring datafile 00054 to +LASR
restoring datafile 00058 to +LASR
restoring datafile 00060 to +LASR
restoring datafile 00062 to +LASR
restoring datafile 00064 to +LASR
restoring datafile 00066 to +LASR
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restoring datafile 00070 to +LASR
restoring datafile 00071 to +LASR
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restoring datafile 00044 to +LASR
restoring datafile 00047 to +LASR
restoring datafile 00048 to +LASR
restoring datafile 00050 to +LASR
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restoring datafile 00055 to +LASR
restoring datafile 00056 to +LASR
restoring datafile 00057 to +LASR
restoring datafile 00059 to +LASR
restoring datafile 00061 to +LASR
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restoring datafile 00065 to +LASR
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