01 - Download and install Replicate
- Arjen Visser
- Jaimes Booth (Unlicensed)
A 30 day trial version of Dbvisit Replicate can be downloaded from the Dbvisit website. This is a full feature evaluation version. Note that this version can only be used for evaluation purposes.
1. Go to the Dbvisit download page for Dbvisit Replicate: http://www.dbvisit.com/products/downloads/#replicate
2. Click on Download Free Trial
3. Fill in your personal details
4. The email link for the download will be sent to the email provided. Click on the email link to bring you to the download page
5. Right click the Linux 64bit RPM and select to copy the URL
6. Go to the source server (dbv01), login as the oracle user (password oracle) and cd into the software directory
cd ~oracle/software
7. Use wget to download Dbvisit Replicate from the software directory. In this example Dbvisit Replicate 2.7.02 is used, but always use the latest download available from the dbvisit.com website.
wget http://xxxxxx/xxxx/xxxx/xxxx/dbvisit_replicate-2.7.02-1.x86_64.rpm Resolving ww2.dbvisit.com... 67.222.54.241 Connecting to ww2.dbvisit.com|67.222.54.241|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 54824960 (52M) [application/x-rpm] Saving to: `dbvisit_replicate-2.7.02-1.x86_64.rpm' 15% [==================> ] 8,489,962 377K/s eta 71s
If there is no Internet connection and the Dbvisit Replicate software has been downloaded to the host (laptop), then the following command can be used to copy the software from the host machine to the first VM (dbv01):
scp -P10022 dbvisit_replicate-2.7.02-1.x86_64.rpm oracle@192.168.1.197:/u01/oracle/software
This uses port forwarding which was setup when Virtual Box was configured (02 - Set up NAT network in Virtual Box).
192.168.1.197 is the IP address of the host machine (laptop). Use ifconfig or ipconfig to identify what the local IP address is of your host machine.
8. su to root and install the rpm.
su -
Password is oracle
rpm -ivh /u01/oracle/software/dbvisit_replicate-2.7.02-1.x86_64.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:dbvisit_replicate ########################################### [100%]
9. Exit to user oracle, and test that the dbvrep executable works.
exit
[oracle@source software]$ dbvrep version Initializing......done Dbvisit Replicate version 2.7.02. Copyright (C) Dbvisit Software Limited. All rights reserved. No DDC file loaded. Dbvisit Replicate version 2.7.02. OK-0: Completed successfully.
The first time dbvrep starts, it takes longer than usual because it extracts files to /tmp/par-oracle. Subsequent times dbvrep is started will be much faster
10. Go to the target server (dbv02), login as oracle (password oracle) and cd into the software directory.
cd ~oracle/software
11. Use wget to download Dbvisit Replicate from the software directory. In this example Dbvisit Replicate 2.7.02 is used, but always use the latest download available from the dbvisit.com website.
wget http://xxxxxx/xxxx/xxxx/xxxx/dbvisit_replicate-2.7.02-1.x86_64.rpm Resolving ww2.dbvisit.com... 67.222.54.241 Connecting to ww2.dbvisit.com|67.222.54.241|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 54824960 (52M) [application/x-rpm] Saving to: `dbvisit_replicate-2.7.02-1.x86_64.rpm' 15% [==================> ] 8,489,962 377K/s eta 71s
If there is no Internet connection and the Dbvisit Replicate software has been downloaded to the host (laptop), then the following command can be used to copy the software from the host machine to the second VM (dbv02):
scp -P10023 dbvisit_replicate-2.7.02-1.x86_64.rpm oracle@192.168.1.197:/u01/oracle/software
This uses port forwarding which was setup when Virtual Box was configured (02 - Set up NAT network in Virtual Box).
192.168.1.197 is the IP address of the host machine (laptop). Use ifconfig or ipconfig to identify what the local IP address is of your host machine.
12. su to root and install the rpm.
su -
Password is oracle
rpm -ivh /u01/oracle/software/dbvisit_replicate-2.7.02-1.x86_64.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:dbvisit_replicate ########################################### [100%]
13. Exit to user oracle, and test the the dbvrep executable works.
exit
dbvrep version Initializing......done Dbvisit Replicate version 2.7.02. Copyright (C) Dbvisit Software Limited. All rights reserved. No DDC file loaded. Dbvisit Replicate version 2.7.02. OK-0: Completed successfully.
The first time dbvrep starts, it takes longer than usual because it extracts files to /tmp/par-oracle. Subsequent times dbvrep is started will be much faster