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Re: 12 GB Database Export

From: Van Messner <vmessner_at_bestweb.net>
Date: 2000/05/30
Message-ID: <8jYY4.404$YY2.51578@newshog.newsread.com>#1/1

Many Novell systems don't run 24/7 so you may have a window available to you (weekend evening?) where you could take the users off and do smaller schema-by-schema exports and imports. Unless everything is in one big schema.

Van

<asokol99_at_my-deja.com> wrote in message news:8h0n84$dhg$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> I'm not sure about NT, but check document 62409.1 in Oracle Metalink
> which discusses 2GB file limits on Sun Solaris.
> There might be some links to docs on file limits on NT.
>
> Alex
>
> In article <8h0djc$1o5s$1_at_news.gigabell.net>,
> "Axel Stahl" <stahl_at_pdg-online.de> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I need to export a 12 GB Database from a Novell 3.12
> > / Oracle 7.2 Server to a NT Oracle 8.1 Database.
> >
> > I will have to export the DB from the Novell-Server
> > over the network to another computer's harddisk
> > because there is no possibility to add harddisk to the
> > Novell server.
> > I testet the export with a commandline utility (exp72.exe)
> > which does the export.
> > This testexport was done with a small DB (some Megabytes)
> > to a win95 client and it worked well.
> > Then I tested the big database to export this way but
> > ater 2 GB's of exporting to a dumpfile on the win95 client
> > there came an error message (error reading file blabla...)
> > I supposed that is because of the win95-filesystem (Fat32 - I thought
> > must make at least 4 GB to one file) so now I'd like to try it with
> > NT wrkst. with NTFS filesystem.
> > But before I do this I'd like to ask You if You think that this will
 work,
> > I have concerns because the old exp72 utility seems to be
> > a 16bit Programm and I don't know if it can handle
> > over 2 GB of one file.
> > Second is if there are problems doing this with a IDE/EIDE
> > Harddisk (new harddisk, 15 GB capacitiy).
> >
> > It would be very kind if you could give me some hint(s).
> >
> > Thank You,
> >
> > Axel
> >
> >
>
>
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Received on Tue May 30 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT

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