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I would use it if it supported backup/restore over unix pipes / ssh.

• emmelaich 2y ago
  If it supports backup to a file, you can have it write to a named pipe and from there to wherever. I used this hack for backing up Oracle 30 years ago. Something like 'mknod p backup.dmp; oradump .... file=backup; dd if=backup.dmp | ssh othermachine receiver-process'
  • thayne 2y ago
    Not necessarily. That won't work if the backup uses apis that a pipe doesn't support, like seek or reading back from the file.
    • emmelaich 2y ago
      Sure; does any backup actually do that? I guess it's possible. Backups (at least db backups) used to be made with the assumption that the backup device is tape.