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- From: aaj@cmutual.com.au (Tony Jambu)
- Subject: Re: Export/Import to tape?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.052159.981@cmutual.com.au>
- Sender: aaj@cmutual.com.au (Tony Jambu)
- Organization: Colonial Mutual Group
- References: <dtb.726846859@otto> <1993Jan22.200037.1902@spectrum.xerox.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 05:21:59 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.200037.1902@spectrum.xerox.com>, rdutc@sarek.xerox (Ray
- Dutcher) writes:
- > Compressing the export through a named pipe worked great and I did the
- > reverse fine without any loss of data. I also did this with success on data
- > files (ie. a physical backup). Thanks for the info. Just to check I called
- > Oracle Support to see if they > were familiar with this technique and they
- > said that they know of customers who do this but they know that some
- > customers have experienced a loss of data when using the UNIX
- > compress/uncompress command and that Oracle will not support this technique.
- >
- >
- >
- > also used compress in the past on exports to transfer a database to another
- > machine over my network and also had zero problems.
- >
- > Before I put this technique into a production system I would like to know if
- > anyone has experienced the "data loss" that Oracle Support mentioned? and if
- > so please state your Oracle version and OS when replying.
- >
- > FYI, here's the technique I'm referring to:
- > (1) Compressing export to disk
- > mknod ora_export.dmp p
- > nohup compress < ora_export.dmp > ora_export.dmp.Z &
- > exp / ...... file=ora_export.dmp
- >
- > This lets you compress on the fly without using any disk (well,
- > you will use 4 disk blocks or the size of a pipe).
- >
- > Thank you for any responses.
-
- The problem with using compress that Oracle is refering to seems be related
- to zcat rather than compress itself. For more infor, refer to
- document #99769.561. This doco be found on the RTSS BBS.
-
- # zcat outputfile.Z | dd bs=16K of=/dev/xxx
- #
- # where of = output file (raw device, in our case)
- # bs = block size of conversion
- # (Recall the all compressed files have a .Z extension to them.)
- #
- # What we found was that zcat was deleting blocks when
- # uncompressing the files. Thus the database was corrupted due to
- # missing blocks.
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