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Re: dbimport : symbolic links to xxx.unl files

Posted By: Kern Doe
Date: Thursday, 5 June 2008, at 10:45 a.m.

In Response To: RE: dbimport : symbolic links to xxx.unl files (Lapeire, Jacques)

This is a classic problem. There has always been a limitation to "unload" command on the 2GB file size of the unload file through dbaccess (don't know if this gets fixed in the later versions).
To get around this, the unload outputs to a pipe instead of a regular file while the pipe is gzip'd to the archive file. The reverse is used to load the data.

This is an example of how to do it:

UNLOAD:
1. mknod unload.pipe p
2. chmod 660 unload.pipe
3. gzip < unload.pipe > archivefile.dmp.gz &
4. from dbaccess: unload to unload.pipe select...

Hope this helps.
Kern --

----- Original Message ----
From: "Lapeire, Jacques" <jacques.lapeire@siemens.com>
To: ids@iiug.org
Sent: Thursday, June 5, 2008 9:58:50 AM
Subject: RE: dbimport : symbolic links to xxx.unl files [12322]

Hi Philippe,

as you can see below, it's no OS-limit, I created a file 'lapj.big' that
passes the 2 Gb limit .

admi:/unload1 >ls -l
total 12109248
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root other 2147483647 Jun 4 23:17 cptmvt.unl
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root other 2309804000 Jun 5 15:54 lapj.big <====== BIG FILE
drwx------ 2 root root 8192 May 26 16:22 lost+found
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root other 1739576372 Jun 4 21:52 tiemvt.unl

Thanks anyway, so I tested this possibility and can eliminate it.

-----Original Message-----
From: ids-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:ids-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of Philippe
Pignon1
Sent: donderdag 5 juni 2008 10:54
To: ids@iiug.org
Subject: RE: dbimport : symbolic links to xxx.unl files [12317]

Hi Jacques,

I'm not a specialist of Solaris but I think you could have limitation with
your file-system.
For example, I had the same problem on an old AIX 32 bits with a JFS
(Journalized File System) created with default parameters.
Try to create a big file on your file system with a Unix tool like dd.

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"Lapeire, Jacques" <jacques.lapeire@siemens.com>
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05/06/2008 10:15
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RE: dbimport : symbolic links to xxx.unl files [12316]

Hi Art,

sorry, but this time I have some doubts.

Yesterday evening I upgraded from 9.21 to 9.40 and did not yet give the
"onmode -BC 1" command.

admi:/var/adm >onstat -d

IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.UC7 -- On-Line -- Up
13:35:04 -- 315392 Kbytes

.... . . . . .. . . . . .

Expanded chunk capacity mode: disabled

As a test (before we start the reorganisaton in a couple of weeks) I
tried to unload a big table
with the following command :

isql apare - << OEF
unload to /unload1/cptmvt.unl select * from cptmvt
OEF

The table contained 13 254 335 rows and after 7 383 874 rows the unload
failed.

Write failed. 7383874 rows unloaded (check ulimit or disk space).

1380: Write failed. rows unloaded (check ulimit or disk space).
See error -852.

Error in line 1

Near character position 30

As you can see below the size of the unload file is exactly the 2 Gb
limit, the filesystem is not full yet
and the ulimit command indicates unlimited for the file-size on
OS-level. (Solaris 8 on sparc)

So I think there must be a relationship anyway between the 'onmode -BC"
and the tools ?
I fear that the dbexport will not work either.
I think I will give the "onmode -BC 1" and try the unload again, or is
there something else I'm missing ?

Best regards,
Jacques Lapeire

admi:/var/adm >df -k /unload1
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c2t1d48s6 11531755 3809297 7607141 34% /unload1

admi:/ >ls -l /unload1
total 7595680
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root other 2147483647 Jun 4 23:17 cptmvt.unl
drwx------ 2 root root 8192 May 26 16:22 lost+found
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root other 1739576372 Jun 4 21:52 tiemvt.unl
admi:/ >wc -l /unload1/*unl
7383874 /unload1/cptmvt.unl
8312979 /unload1/tiemvt.unl
15696853 total

admi:/ >isql apare - <<OEF
select count(*) from cptmvt
OEF

(count(*))

13254573 ===> some rows are already added at this time

1 row(s) retrieved.

admi:/ >ulimit -a
time(seconds) unlimited
file(blocks) unlimited
data(kbytes) unlimited
stack(kbytes) 8192
coredump(blocks) unlimited
nofiles(descriptors) 256
vmemory(kbytes) unlimited

-----Original Message-----
From: ids-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:ids-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of
Art Kagel
Sent: donderdag 22 mei 2008 14:54
To: ids@iiug.org
Subject: Re: dbimport : symbolic links to xxx.unl files [12186]

Yes.

Art

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Lapeire, Jacques <
jacques.lapeire@siemens.com> wrote:

> Thanks for your reply Art,
>
> so to be sure I understand correctly :
>
> - I do not need to give onmode -BC 1
> - after the upgrade to 9.40 , dbexport will unload tables > 2 Gb
> - the dbimport with symbolic links will work
>
> Thx and best regards
> Jacques
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ids-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:ids-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of
> Art Kagel
> Sent: donderdag 22 mei 2008 14:40
> To: ids@iiug.org
> Subject: Re: dbimport : symbolic links to xxx.unl files [12182]
>
> Yes, that will work fine. The dbexport doesn't need the large chunk
> support
> though, that's independent of the large file support in the tools, so
> you
> can skip that step until later if you want to rebuild the instance
with
> larger chunks.
>
> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 7:59 AM, JACQUES LAPEIRE <
> jacques.lapeire@siemens.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi guys, anyone has experience on this ?
> >
> > I'm running IDS 9.21 on Solaris 8 sparc platform and I need to do an

> > upgrade
> > to IDS 9.40 and afterwards a complete reorganisation of the
databases.
>
> >
> > First question :
> >
> > In 9.21 I still have the 2gb limit, so I will upgrade to 9.40 and
> execute
> > the
> > onmode -BC 1 command to allow big chunks. After that I suppose I can

> use
> > dbexport to unload the data. (I will test to unload a table >2 Gb).
> >
> > Second question :
> >
> > I have 2 filesystems at my disposal for the dbexport (1 x 26 Gb and
1
> x 21
> > Gb).
> > The database contains about 40 Gb, so during the dbexport I will
move
> the
> > files already written to the second filesystem.
> > Now to do the dbimport, several files will be located on the second
> > filesystem
> > instead of on the one indicated in the xxx.sql file
> >
> > If I create symbolic links in the first filesystem, pointing to the
> xxx.unl
> > files located in the second filesystem, will dbimport work fine ?
> >
> > Thanks for any replies.
> >
> > Jacques Lapeire
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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