Re: Restoring database with .Z files

Hi,

zcat whatever.dbf.Z > /whereever/whatever.dbf

Cheers,

---Phil

On 03/01/06, J. Dex wrote:
> I am trying to restore a large database from disk and the backups files are
> on a UNIX box and have a .Z extension. I want to decompress them to another
> directory leaving the input files unchanged.
> I've tried a couple different option flags and I am still not getting the
> result that I want.
>
> Typically, I am used to working with gunzip. This is how I do what I want
> in gunzip
> gunzip -dc /d01/restore/control01.ctl.gz > /d02/oradata/dbname/control01.ctl
>
> Does anyone know what the equivalent of doing this is with regular .Z files?
>
> Thanks.
>
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