Re: dbexport / dbimport & 2G limit

Posted in 1998

Mark Collins — Tue, 17 Mar 1998 09:06:11 +0000 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

> Can anyone confirm that dbexport and dbimport of informix7 has a 2G > upper limitation? Yes and no. The 2 GB limit applies to individual files/tapes. If you are dbexporting to tape and specify a size of 2 GB ('dbexport -t /dev/rmt/0m -s 2048000000' - not quite 2 GB but close), after writing 2,048,000,000 bytes to the tape, dbexport will prompt for another tape. Mark Collins mcollins@us.dhl.com The problem lies in how easily and dangerously we forget that manipulating things is not the same as understanding them.