This is not specifically a Linux question but I hope someone might be able
to suggest a solution.
I have a database application on a Unix box and want to port it to Windows
NT at the request of a customer. The application includes utilities to
port the data by writing ascii comma delimited files to a directory.
Normally I would run the export program then ftp the files to a Windows NT
machine on my network, test the port, then put the files onto a CD and
send them off to the customer.
In this case, though, the estimated size of the export directory is about
9gb of data and there is not that much room on the Unix machine nor any
other machine Bon the network.
The export program loops through each file in the database and creates
about 800 ASCII text files, writing them to disk in the export directory.
Is there any way I could have it write to the tape using tar instead of
directly to disk? Somehow I would have to keep tar "open" accepting files
and then close it. There may be a perfectly simple solution to this but I
am not a complete Unix guru so I haven't been able to figure it out yet.
All ideas for solutions appreciated.
Thanks,
Dennis
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