Dbvisit Replicate can be installed as a TAR file or a RPM. The simplest way is to install the RPM, but this does require root privileges to run RPM. RPM is only available for Linux.
Dbvisit Replicate software can be run with any OS user id except root. It does not have to be the same user id as the Oracle software. However, file system read access to the redo and archive logs is required and that is why the user has to be part of the oinstall or dba group. If ASM is used on MINE, a bequeath connection must be made to the ASM instance and the user may also have to be a member of the sysasm group.
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