Hello, Tar always saves a "pipe file" and do not permit to backup its contents.
mkfifo a echo 123 > a & tar -cz a | tar -tzv prw-rw-r-- pcarga/pcarga 0 2008-06-23 11:58 a Instead of: mkfifo a echo 123 > a & tar -cz a -read-pipes-to-files | tar -tzv -rw-rw-r-- pcarga/pcarga 4 2008-06-23 11:58 a My problem is that I must backup an oracle database that its dump does not fit in local filesystem. This way I'm not able to create temp files. Also, I wanted to include some diretories in this same tar. I wanted to use something like this: mkfifo $FIFO $ORACLE_HOME/bin/exp file=$FIFO & tar -cz $FIFO other-dir1 other-dir2 | ssh remoteHost "cat > mybackup" Any solution for this case? -- Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 19290419 I Know, "Where you wanted to go today", but I decided to stop here instead! MS Windows
