Re: RMAN and NFS

From: <Jared.Still_at_radisys.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 16:39:55 -0700
Message-ID: <OFD005E9B6.098CBD22-ON88256EC4.0081BC3B-88256EC4.0081FA99@radisys.com>

> Depending on your architecture, NFS may have a low file size limit,
> and may not work for you. There's no real reason you need it anyway.
>
> On Unix, just use tablespace hot backup mode and dd bs=128K if=<file>
> | rsh <hostname> | dd bs=128k of=<file>
>
> And do it in parallel within the capacity of your system.
>
> Faster than anything you can do with RMAN.
>
> Unless you figure out the 10g RMAN pipe interface, where you can make
> RMAN write to a named pipe. If you do, please share.

If the SA's won't run NFS for security reasons, they're not likely to allow rsh. SSH could probably be used instead, though I haven't tried it like this.

netcat would do this, if the SA's allow it.

Jared

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