RE: Export bigger then 2G with Oracle7.3.4

From: Bobak, Mark <Mark.Bobak_at_il.proquest.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 06:39:36 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005DC447.20040109063936@fatcity.com>

You don't mention OS, but if it's a flavor of unix, you could probably do:
mknod my_pipe p
exp file=my_pipe <all other export options> & split -b 2047m my_pipe exp.dmp

This will generate multiple files, 2.047 MB per file. They will be named exp.dmpaa, exp.dmpab, exp.dmpac, etc,etc..... To import, you'd simply do:
cat exp.dmp?? >> my_pipe &
imp file=my_pipe <all other import options>

Hope that helps,

-Mark

Mark J. Bobak
Oracle DBA
ProQuest Company
Ann Arbor, MI
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Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 8:59 AM
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Hi DBAs,

Because of some requirements from one of our vendor, we still have a database running Oracle7.3.4 on WindowsNT and since this package is no longer used, so we
want to export the content of this database. The database is around 60G, one table is 55G. So a simple export on release
7 will crash when I will get 2G of dump file.

The export utility for release 7 doesn't allow us to create multiple files,
but the export utility for release 8 does. I know that they recommend to always use the lower version of export, but is
there a way to use export 8i and create multiple files on a Oracle7.3.4 database?

If not, what can I do?

Thanks
Luc

Luc Demanche
AstraZeneca R&D Montreal
Oracle Database Administrator
514.832.3200 x2356

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