I had a brief excursion into installing Oracle and playing around with dbf files and figured to understand how to move the actual dbf file as a backup of the database and then restore it in a completely new installation. These are notes I made using default parameters on Oracle and I'm not crazy enough to go into detail on what the hundreds of customized Oracle installs are available out there.
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