I am running ORACLE on AIX and backing up my ORACLE files to a ADSM
server.  When I restore an ORACLE file it is no longer a sparse file.  In
other words I loose all of its empty space.  I want to be able to retain
the file's sparse'ness when I restore it.  Is there a way to do this?



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