Re: Diskless export/import - here's a method to do so

Stephan Bressler <sbresslerx_no_spam_at_arcor.de> wrote in message news:<bvvfbk$3ja$1_at_news.mch.sbs.de>...

> Hi,
> you could even run it without mknod from the source system (or target):
> exp xxx/xxx file=/dev/fd/1 volsize=0 | ssh target ". _setup_env_script;
> imp yyy/yyy /dev/fd/0"
>
> /dev/fd/* are alias to a process' file descriptors, 0=STDIN, 1=STDOUT, etc.
>

That is beyond cool. Can't wait to try it!

Kind regards,
jh Received on Fri Feb 06 2004 - 14:07:22 CST