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Compressing onunloads

Posted in 2007

Topics: Backup & Restore, Migration, Import/Export & Data Conversion

Neil Truby — — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Has anyone a technique for compressing onunload output as it's created ... and uncompressing it directly to onload? Similat to the ontape -s -t STDIO facility. thx -- Neil Truby t:01932 724027 Director m:07798 811708 Ardenta Limited e:neil.truby@ardenta.com

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Christian Knappke — — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

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Neil Truby — — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

"Christian Knappke" <chknews@gmx.net> wrote in message news:Xns993B63CFC8D52HZqjX8Z9@news.sap-ag.de... > From the keyboard of "Neil Truby" <neil.truby@ardenta.com>: > >> Has anyone a technique for compressing onunload output as it's >> created ... and uncompressing it directly to onload? >> >> Similat to the ontape -s -t STDIO facility. > > Unload to a fifo/named pipe, let gzip/compress read from there and> write to another fifo/named pipe, let onload read from that. > > But why would you want to do that instead of piping directly from > onunload to onload? The source and target databases are on separate UNIX servers. I guess I can try something clever with rsh ....

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Christian Knappke — — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

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