How to archive very large Oracle RMAN files to tape?

From: Tim Cuthbertson <timcuth_at_my-deja.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 19:39:16 GMT
Message-ID: <85g0t2$i97$1@nnrp1.deja.com>

I am using Oracle RMAN to backup an 80 GB database to three Veritas filesystems on Solaris 2.6. This creates some very large files (20 GB or more). I need to archive these files to DLT-7000 tapes for additional safety. However, I have not been able to find a utility that can do this.

Both cpio and tar work with "large files", but there is still a maximum file size of 8 GB minus 1 byte.

The Veritas vxdump utility can handle the size, but it can only backup entire filesystems. If I were to need to restore from such backups, it would cause havoc with the rest of the data on my filesystems.

Does anyone know of a commonly available utility that will do this?

TIA,
Tim

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Before you buy. Received on Tue Jan 11 2000 - 13:39:16 CST