Re: Export directly to tape

Hi Adam,

it is easy:

1. create a named pipe
2. exp to the pipe
3. tar (or gzip) from the pipe to tape

Stefan

Adam Knight wrote:
>
> Does anyone do their exports directly to tape?
>
> At present I export to .dmp files on a number of disks then write the
> disks to tape.
> Obviously that is two seperate operations.
>
> We are using Oracle8i on SUN Solaris 2.6.
>
> I now have a 36GB database which I want to export but doing that first
> to disk and then to tape is not possible (not enough spare disks to
> house the export files). I want to export directly to tape.
>
> Does anyone have any experience of doing this that they would like to
> share, please respond to the newsgroup if you do.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> --
> Adam J M Knight
> Oracle DBA
> LEAP/MIS
> University of Bath
> Claverton Down
> Bath
> Somerset
> BA2 7AY
Received on Sun Jun 27 1999 - 14:59:17 CDT