Oracle 6 server and Oracle 7 clients

Hi,

We are running an Oracle 6 server on a single database server, running SunOS 4.1.3. As soon as possible we will be upgrading the operating system of the server to Solaris 2.3 and the Oracle version to 7.<something>.

We have a few workstations running Solaris 2.1 already. We would like to hook our DAT tape drive to one of them. It is our only drive, and the one we are using nightly for our Oracle exports.

My question is: Would it be safe to use the Oracle 7 exp client for Solaris 2.1, running on the machine that has the tape drive connected to it, exporting from a remote Oracle 6 database server? Could something go wrong? We would not want to risk our exports, if this is not 100% safe, but it would be nice if it was.

If this is not safe, could a command like:

<oracle server>% exp .... FILE=stdout | rsh <tape server> dd of=/dev/...

be used safely instead?

Best regards,

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