Re: Compressed export to Tape
Date: 1995/08/02
Message-ID: <3vmh3i$j8p_at_ixnews7.ix.netcom.com>#1/1
c9527_at_rrzc4 (Alfred Jockisch t4878) wrote:
>Hello, database backuppers,
>has anyone an idea, how i can write the output of the UNIX-compress to a
>DAT-Tape without first writing it to a file (which would be larger than
>the free space on my harddisks)? I want to export a large database and
>to import it on another system and my trials with named pipes and cpio
>were errors. The Oracle-Export writes to a named pipe which i get into
>the compress and compress delivers the result to standard output or a
>named pipe (successful trials) but then how to bring it to the tape
>device? There is a x-Option for cpio on our HP-UX 9.0 - system to write
>data which come from a named pipe, but it doesn't work.
>Has anyone a hint for me?
Why not just redirect the output of compress to the tape device?
compress < named.pipe > /dev/rmt Received on Wed Aug 02 1995 - 00:00:00 CEST