Re: backup question

From: Connor McDonald <connor_mcdonald_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 23:06:36 +0800
Message-ID: <374D5F7C.41FF@yahoo.com>

Joost Mulders wrote:
>
> I am doing this on a HP 10.20 K series machine. Oh...Yes, and I lied a
> bit. cpio is nout wining, but cpio's manpage is. It says that cpio will
> not create archives greater than 2G. cpio IS wining when I create an
> archive on DISK which would become greater than 2G. I haven't tried
> writing to tape but the manpage does not give much hope.
>
> The question really is: should I do the hassle with cpio | tar | dd? How
> do you -oracle guys- backup databases with a size of 6 - 8 GB? using
> standard unix tools or a dedicated program.
>
> TIA
>
> Joost Mulders

If you are going to tape, then

- cpio
- tar
- ufsdump (Solaris)
- bru (Irix)
- Legato Networker

and an assortment of other tools will no problem with 2G (as long as you have enough tape...)

To go to disk, then use the compress or split options mentioned by other posters...

HTH --

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Connor McDonald
Interforce Consultants
"These views mine, no-one elses etc etc" connor_mcdonald_at_yahoo.com

"Hardware,n. The bits that can be kicked" Received on Thu May 27 1999 - 10:06:36 CDT