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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