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

You can create a file with all the exp parameters defined in it and when running exp use parfile='filename' option. Make sure you enter your tape device when you specify the output file name .

See Oracle7 Server Utilities User's Guide Chapter 1 for more details.

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

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Received on Thu Feb 15 1996 - 00:00:00 CET