1. Middleware Lifecycle Management Administrator's Guide
  2. Patching Software Deployments
  3. Applying Patches
  4. Switching Back to the Original Oracle Home After Deploying a Patch Plan

Switching Back to the Original Oracle Home After Deploying a Patch Plan

If you had patched an Oracle RAC target, Oracle single-instance database target, Oracle Restart target, or an Oracle Grid Infrastructure target (that may or may not be a part of Oracle Exadata), in out-of-place patching mode, and you now want to switch back to the original home for some reason, then you can use the Switchback option available in the Create Plan Wizard. The advantage of using this option is that you do not actually roll back the patches from the cloned and patched Oracle home; you only switch back to the old, original Oracle home that exists without the patches.

Note:

  • The Switchback option is available only for Oracle RAC, Oracle single-instance database, Oracle Restart, and Oracle Grid Infrastructure targets (that may or may not be a part of Oracle Exadata), and only when these targets are patched in out-of-place patching mode.

  • You can switch back only if you have successfully analyzed and deployed a patch plan.

To switch back to the original Oracle home after a patch plan is deployed, follow these steps:

  1. From the Enterprise menu, select Provisioning and Patching, then select Patches & Updates.
  2. On the Patches & Updates page, in the Plans region, click the successfully analyzed and deployed patch plan you used for patching the Oracle RAC, Oracle Restart, Oracle single-instance database, or Oracle Grid Infrastructure targets. Alternatively, select the patch plan, and in the context menu, click View. The Create Plan Wizard appears.
  3. In the Create Plan Wizard, on the Review & Deploy page, click Switchback.