Re: How to archive very large Oracle RMAN files to tape?

From: <austin_at_visi.net>
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 22:00:56 GMT
Message-ID: <85itid$mn8$1@nnrp1.deja.com>

I would just dd the files to tape for the time being until you can get a full blown backup system in place. According to the the largfile(5) man page, dd doesn't have any limit. I'm not sure why tar and cpio have that 8GB limit. Maybe a limitation of their own file format.

In article <85g0t2$i97$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>, Tim Cuthbertson <timcuth_at_my-deja.com> wrote:
> I am using Oracle RMAN to backup an 80 GB database to three Veritas
> filesystems on Solaris 2.6. This creates some very large files (20 GB
> or more). I need to archive these files to DLT-7000 tapes for
> additional safety. However, I have not been able to find a utility
that
> can do this.
>
> Both cpio and tar work with "large files", but there is still a
maximum
> file size of 8 GB minus 1 byte.
>
> The Veritas vxdump utility can handle the size, but it can only backup
> entire filesystems. If I were to need to restore from such backups, it
> would cause havoc with the rest of the data on my filesystems.
>
> Does anyone know of a commonly available utility that will do this?
>
> TIA,
> Tim
>
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