Re: ORACLE v7 Export to Tape problems

Steven Shapiro (skscci_at_zeus.IntNet.net) wrote:

> 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.

Hi Steve,

Im not sure what happens if you give as output file directly the device name of your tape-station (/dev/rmt0, or somethin like this). The success depends on the internal open/write procedures oracle used, but in terminology of UNIX it must work. Try it, and you will see what happens.

Regards, Timo.

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