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Old 01-31-2013
Compress dbexport on the fly

Hi,

I have an old HPUX 10.20 server running Informix 7.23
I need to dump the database to get it off that hardware before it dies.
Unfortunately there is insufficient local diskspace to do so.

I have set up a linux box with sufficient disk onto which I can export the database.

Having configured an NFS link between the two, I ran
dbexport -o /remote
However, the HPUX server has NFS v2 which has a 2Gb file size limit.
Some of the tables being unloaded are over 2Gb in size so the dbexport process terminates when it reaches the first one.

Seems bundle PHNE_25234 would upgrade to NFS v3 but I cannot find it.

My only other idea on how to do this, is to compress the dbexport output on the fly before it is saved to the NFS disk, but I cannot figure out the syntax, or even if it's possible.

Does anyone know how I might achieve this?
Or if it might be possible to transfer the data on the fly another way? By ftp maybe?

Thank you for any help you can offer
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Old 01-31-2013
Can the -t be used to redirect it to write to stdout? Then you can compress or ssh over to another host to lay down the file. I wonder if the -t output is a tar file or something like that. This page says "-s -": The dbexport and dbimport Programs Try pointing it to a named pipe from '/sbin/mknod name p'. This guy seems to have it working: http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Arch.../msg00193.html

The utility ontape is more versatile and fast, but not as platform independent: http://informix-zone.com/idswiki/dok...bexport_ontape

This guy talks about onbar and onunload: http://oreilly.com/catalog/unixbr/chapter/ch14.html

This guy uses unload and a named pipe: http://www.iiug.org/forums/ids/index...ames/read/1026

If you have the schema file, you can select * from each table and save the data that way for future insert/import.

There may be some JDBC tools that will help do this, like kettle and xigole jisql.

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