Re: Exporting to a tape
From: Mark Bluemel <markb_at_pyramid.com>
Date: 1995/10/30
Message-ID: <1995Oct30.040419.7005_at_pyra.co.uk>#1/1
: >
: >I am using Oracle version 7.1.3 on a Sun Solaris 2.4 Unix box.
: >
: >I was wondering if you can export directly to tape, and if so, what
: >is the command to do this. I know I can export to a file and then
: >copy it to tape, but I'd like to instead export directly to tape.
: >
: >Also, it would be nice if I could export a compress file to tape.
: >
: >Thanks for any help.
: >
: >Mary Hunt
Date: 1995/10/30
Message-ID: <1995Oct30.040419.7005_at_pyra.co.uk>#1/1
Software Design (softdes_at_cps.softex.br) wrote:
: mary_at_mitra.com (Mary E. Hunt) wrote:
: >
: >I am using Oracle version 7.1.3 on a Sun Solaris 2.4 Unix box.
: >
: >I was wondering if you can export directly to tape, and if so, what
: >is the command to do this. I know I can export to a file and then
: >copy it to tape, but I'd like to instead export directly to tape.
: >
: >Also, it would be nice if I could export a compress file to tape.
: >
: >Thanks for any help.
: >
: >Mary Hunt
: You need just to do:
: exp ... file=/dev/<your_tape_device>
: To compress, it's a little bit more difficult. But, most of DAT tapes : are already compressing your backups.
If you haven't got a compressing tape drive, you have to do a trick with named pipes. It goes something like this :-
mknod compress_pipe p # make a named pipe compress < compress_pipe > /dev/<tape> & # background job # to do compression exp ... file=compress_pipe
This should be OK.
-- Mark Bluemel Unix/Oracle Trainer and Consultant My opinions are my own, but I'll share them All solutions to problems are offered "as is" and without warranty - you have been warned :-)Received on Mon Oct 30 1995 - 00:00:00 CET