You can read from a pipe, if you do a user backup. Specify the named pipe in
the filelist. I think the write process has to open the pipe for writing
first, then start the user backup. The backup finishes if the write process
closes the pipe. Long time ago I have tested this...

Joerg

>Hi folks !
>Is there any way to open a named pipe for reading and send the output to 
>bpbackup for backing up ? I am trying to backup the export of oracle 
>database without writing it to the disk, directly to the tape. I may be 
>crazy, but just a thought..
>
>Thanks for your help,
>- Karun