Hi Tilo!

Thanks a lot!

> -----Urspr�ngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Heinrich, Tilo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Gesendet: Montag, 18. Februar 2002 17:32
> An: JUNG, Christian; SAPDB-General (E-Mail)
> Betreff: RE: Max. filesize (Linux)?
> [...]
> Which backup tool, by the way?

We're using Harbor (it's a backup-tool from our mainframe-system). They
provide a client for Linux (of course it was long time in beta-state), which
costs about 30 times (!) more than the windows-version of it. So that's
nothing for us. The money isn't the only fact, why we won't use their tool
for backing up our linux-machines. But that it costs 30 times more money,
than the windows-clients, is the main-reason against.

> OK, three solutions come to mind:
> 
> 1. How about using dbmcli, file x with prepared "backup_replace
> ..."-commands and a "dbmcli ... <x"? The luxurious version 
> would be a script
> talking with dbmcli and thereby avoiding error messages for the
> backup_replace-commands after the end of the backup.
Yeah. That's ok - but a lot of work anyway... ;-) Sorry, don't know the
translation of the following sentence: "Faulheit ist die Triebfeder der
Menschheit" ;-)

> [...]
> 3. You can use the program pipe2file delivered with SAP DB. 
> While probably
> not able to break the 2Gig barrier on Linux, it can cut the 
> backup data into
> a lot of small pieces. So backup again into a pipe and start 
> "pipe2file -d
> pipe2file -f <filename> -p <pipename> -s <filesize> -nowait". 
> After the
> backup you should find a lot of files of size <filesize> 
> named <filename>.0,
> <filename>.1, ... . With "pipe2file -d file2pipe -f 
> <filename> -p <pipename>
> -s <filesize> -nowait" you would recreate the stream of 
> backup data into the
> pipe <pipename>.
> [...]
If already programmed such a tool some time ago, but I thought there would
be a more elegant way to do it. But that's ok. It's great that you're
delivering such a tool with SAP DB. But there's no hint in the documentation
for this tool.


Greets
Christian Jung
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