Re: specifying export dmp file size

In article <37A065CE.BFD13AC5_at_xlink.net>,   Uwe Schneider <uwe.schneider_at_xlink.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Nathan Phan wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> > We have a limitation of 2G file size in AIX, for some valid
reason,
> > we don't want to enable large file support. How can I do a "full"
export
> > where the dmp file will be bigger than 2G ? I am looking for
something
> > like specifying the dump file size like 1.5G and the "exp" will auto
> > create another dmp file when it reaches the size and continue to do
> > export.
>
> the usual solution for this problem is to create a named pipe and to
> start a program which reads from the pipe and creates chunks of
> appropriate size. The export file parameter of exp is just the name of
> the pipe.
>
> To import the data on the target system you can concatenate the chuncs
> by a simple "cat" command or you can create a program which writes
the
> files to the pipe.
>
> Uwe
> --
> uwe.schneider_at_xlink.net

uwe/nathan, export to a pipe compress data from pipe and split command will do the trick. if you use 8i there is a file size option. I don't recall the split command on the top of my head. If you can figure out drop me a note i will find the code for your.
>

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