On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 05:17:19PM -0400, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Mark Adams <m...@campbell-lange.net> wrote: > > 1273659791.836703: sendbackup: critical (fatal): index tee cannot write > > [Broken pipe] > > This means that the index tee (which splits off the 'tar' output to > generate the index) cannot write to its output, which is the > client-side compression. Since the error is EPIPE, this means either > that pbzip2 exited, or that it closed its standard input prematurely. > > The next step would be to figure out why pbzip2 would do that. Does > it automatically compress its stdin and pipe it to stdout? > > Dustin >
You need to specify -c with pbzip2 to have it compress to stdout I believe. If you just run it by itself; pbzip2 pbzip2: *ERROR: Won't write compressed data to terminal. Aborting! pbzip2 -h Usage: pbzip2 [-1 .. -9] [-b#cdfhklm#p#qrS#tVz] <filename> <filename2> <filenameN> -1 .. -9 set BWT block size to 100k .. 900k (default 900k) -b# Block size in 100k steps (default 9 = 900k) -c,--stdout Output to standard out (stdout) -d,--decompress Decompress file -f,--force Overwrite existing output file -h,--help Print this help message -k,--keep Keep input file, don't delete -l,--loadavg Load average determines max number processors to use -m# Maximum memory usage in 1MB steps (default 100 = 100MB) -p# Number of processors to use (default: autodetect [2]) -q,--quiet Quiet mode (default) -r,--read Read entire input file into RAM and split between processors -t,--test Test compressed file integrity -v,--verbose Verbose mode -V,--version Display version info for pbzip2 then exit -z,--compress Compress file (default)
