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On Tue, 25 May 1999 01:20:57 +0200, Joost Mulders
<mail_at_j-mulders.demon.nl> wrote:
>I am doing this on a HP 10.20 K series machine. Oh...Yes, and I lied a
>bit. cpio is nout wining, but cpio's manpage is. It says that cpio will
>not create archives greater than 2G. cpio IS wining when I create an
>archive on DISK which would become greater than 2G. I haven't tried
>writing to tape but the manpage does not give much hope.
>
>The question really is: should I do the hassle with cpio | tar | dd? How
>do you -oracle guys- backup databases with a size of 6 - 8 GB? using
>standard unix tools or a dedicated program.
Interesting. FWIW, I'm converting a 7.3.4 on Irix system to 8.0.5 on HP-UX 11 64 bit K460 over July 4. Backups are/will be done with OmniBack II V 3.0 (probably, maybe 2.55) and RMAN under 8.0.5.
All of the existing datafiles are under 2gb in size; after compress, the backups total less than 5gb. Initial size in total is >25gb.
I have not tried to use cpio to backup to disk. It's been 2.5 years since I used cpio on HP-UX to backup anything and that was under 9.0x.
Jeff
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