Re: Migrate 200 Million of rows

From: Karsten Schmidt <groups_at_karsten-schmidt.com>
Date: 31 Jul 2003 04:53:14 -0700
Message-ID: <c6711ac4.0307310353.c7919f7@posting.google.com>

you can always use /dev/zero to restore.

Karsten

>
> Yeah.. we should market these neato tricks. I also have one. It deals
> with backups. I have discovered this amazing device file on Unix. I
> have backed up an entire physical database to it. But the device stays
> the same size. I'm sure it is implementing this compression method
> you're speaking of. I have not yet figured out how to read from the
> device.. but I'm getting there. In the meantime I have made the
> symbolic link /dev/tape0 for this wonderous device called /dev/null...
>
> <GD&RLH>
Received on Thu Jul 31 2003 - 06:53:14 CDT