Re: Exporting directly to tape on HP-UX 10.x

From: Thomas M. Buccelli <tmb_at_idm.com>
Date: 1996/02/12
Message-ID: <DMn3Cq.4tE_at_idm.com>#1/1

John Verhoeven (johnv_at_acix.DIALix.oz.au) wrote:

} In article dated Thu, 08 Feb 1996 11:38:20 -0500, Brian M. Biggs (bbiggs_at_cincom.com) wrote:

} > One of our DBA's is trying to export a large database directly to tape,
} > and is having trouble doing it automatically from a shell script (for
} > eventual use in a cron job).
 

} > Volume size (<ret> for no restriction) >
 

} I created a file called answer with just a carriage return (CR) in it.  I did
} my export with 'exp .... < answer' and it took the CR as the answer to the
} question and went on its merry way.
 

} No doubt somebody else will have a better answer...but it worked.

I don't know what version of Oracle you are using, but in ver6 on HPUX9 I just use the volsize=0 command line option. Type 'exp help=Y' for more.

Tom

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Thomas M. Buccelli (tmb_at_idm.com)

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Received on Mon Feb 12 1996 - 00:00:00 CET