tarring a dump. Problems with a pipe

Robin Smith rasmith at aristotle.tamu.edu
Thu Sep 8 11:26:19 PDT 2005


>>>>> "Parv" == Parv  <parv at pair.com> writes:


    Parv> in message <y78xy78mkq.xy7 at mail.opusnet.com>, wrote Gary W.
    Parv> Swearingen thusly...
    >>  Parv <parv at pair.com> writes:
    >> 
    >> > In this context, by "bzip" did you actually meant "bzip2"?  >
    >> (There is a archivers/bzip port.)
    >> 
    >> No, I presented bzip2-labeled test results and then made
    >> statements about archivers/bzip.

    Parv> Thanks much for clarifying.


    >> But I suppose they're true about "bzip2" too.

    Parv> Can't comment (as i have not done any tests comparing bzip
    Parv> to bzip2).

Just to return to the original question: to compress a dump, just
run dump with the "-f -" flag and pipe the output through your
favorite compression program (gzip, bzip2, bzip, compress).  I
was responding to a question about the use of tar, which would be
pointless here. 

Robin Smith


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