Method 1: Create a Copy of the Oracle Grid Infrastructure Home and Remove the Unnecessary Files from the Copy

On the source node, create a copy of the Oracle Grid Infrastructure home. To keep the installed Oracle Grid Infrastructure home as a working home, make a full copy of the source Oracle Grid Infrastructure home and remove the unnecessary files from the copy. For example, as root on Linux systems, run the cp command:
```
# cp -prf Grid_home copy_path
```

Delete unnecessary files from the copy.

The Oracle Grid Infrastructure home contains files that are relevant only to the source node, so you can remove the unnecessary files from the copy of the Oracle Grid Infrastructure home in the log, crs/init, crf, and cdata directories. The following example for Linux and UNIX systems shows the commands to run to remove the unnecessary files from the copy of the Oracle Grid Infrastructure home:

[root@node1 root]# cd copy_path
[root@node1 grid]# rm -rf log/host_name
[root@node1 grid]# rm -rf gpnp/host_name
[root@node1 grid]# find gpnp -type f -exec rm -f {} \;
[root@node1 grid]# rm -rf cfgtoollogs/*
[root@node1 grid]# rm -rf crs/init/*
[root@node1 grid]# rm -rf cdata/*
[root@node1 grid]# rm -rf crf/*
[root@node1 grid]# rm -rf network/admin/*.ora
[root@node1 grid]# rm -rf crs/install/crsconfig_params
[root@node1 grid]# find . -name '*.ouibak' -exec rm {} \;
[root@node1 grid]# find . -name '*.ouibak.1' -exec rm {} \;
[root@node1 grid]# rm -rf root.sh*
[root@node1 grid]# rm -rf rdbms/audit/*
[root@node1 grid]# rm -rf rdbms/log/*
[root@node1 grid]# rm -rf inventory/backup/*

Create a compressed copy of the previously copied Oracle Grid Infrastructure home using tar or gzip on Linux and UNIX systems. Ensure that the tool you use preserves the permissions and file timestamps. For example:
On Linux and UNIX systems:
```
[root@node1 root]# cd copy_path
[root@node1 grid]# tar -zcvpf /copy_path/gridHome.tgz .
```
In the preceding example, the cd command changes the ___location to the copy of the Oracle Grid Infrastructure home with the unnecessary files removed that you created in the first two steps of this procedure, and the tar command creates a file named gridHome.tgz. In the tar command, copy_path represents the ___location of the copy of the Oracle Grid Infrastructure home.

On AIX or HPUX systems:
```
uncompress gridHome.tar.Z
tar xvf gridHome.tar
```
On Windows systems, use WinZip to create a zip file.