Re: ORACLE v7 Export to Tape problems

From: Anton Dischner <dischner_at_med.uni-muenchen.de>
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1994 20:58:54 +0200
Message-ID: <dischner-190494205854_at_u7x5201.ppp.lrz-muenchen.de>


In article <2opl5e$ml_at_zeus.IntNet.net>, skscci_at_zeus.IntNet.net (Steven Shapiro) wrote:

> Howdy All!
>
> Due to the large size of our database, exporting it to disk and then
> copying to tape is unreasonable. As such, we would like to directly
> export it to tape. However, we can't seem to figure out the magical
> incantation. We've spoken to Oracle about this and they admit it is a bug.
>
> Well fine, but we can't really wait until Oracle decides to fix the
> problem, so I was wondering if any of you may have found a workaround to
> this.
>
> We are using Oracle 7.0.15.4 on an RS6000 running AIX.
>
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Please be more specific.
How big are your tables ?
Did you try to export data into a pipe and maybe do a compress and/or write the data to tape.
See FAQ for this method.

What problem do you have with writing it directly to tape ? Do you have an error number or somthing else ?

regards,

Toni Received on Tue Apr 19 1994 - 20:58:54 CEST

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