Re: Full export on a 10G DB with 2G Unix FS limit?

In article <3r1hc7$fq8_at_inet-nntp-gw-1.us.oracle.com>, dbeusee_at_us.oracle.com (Don Beusee) says:
>
>E A Macnaghten <ar02_at_dial.pipex.com> writes:
>> nolan_at_pumpkin.tssi.com (Michael Nolan) wrote:
>> >
>> > I have a database which will be around 8-10 GB by mid-summer, running on
>> > an AT&T GIS (NCR) 3430, UNIX SVR4. There is a limitation on this system of
>> > 2G per filesystem. (I'm not sure but there may also be a limit of around
>> > 2G per individual file, but at this point that is still academic. A future
>> > release of UNIX is supposed to increase the FS limitation to around 8G.)
>> >
>> > So, if a 'full' export will produce a file in excess of the maximum size I
>> > can create, how would I do one?
>> > --
>>
>>

On our IBM RS/6000 system, we export direstly to tape by specifying the export file=/dev/rmt0.

Scott Overby                              sds_at_dataplusnet.com