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

In article <3r04f5$bdt_at_soap.pipex.net>, E A Macnaghten <ar02_at_dial.pipex.com> says:
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>nolan_at_pumpkin.tssi.com (Michael Nolan) wrote:
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>> 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.)
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>> So, if a 'full' export will produce a file in excess of the maximum size I
>> can create, how would I do one?
>> --
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>You can compress the export in the following way
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> mknod entire.dmp p
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> compress < entire.dmp > entire.dmp.Z &
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> exp system/system_password full=y file=entire.dmp .....
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> rm entire.dmp
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>This will create a compressed version of the dump which hopefully
>is less than 2G
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Or you could just export to tape. Received on Thu Jun 08 1995 - 00:00:00 CEST