Hi all,
Can I safely pump a filesystem dump through gzip during the dumping process?,
or di I need to create the dump first then gzip it after?
Does zipping the dumps cause any headaches at restore time?
(I currently dump 5 servers worth of data to a raid 5 array, and am about 20%
away from
On Thursday 16 August 2007, Grant Peel wrote:
Can I safely pump a filesystem dump through gzip during the dumping
process?, or di I need to create the dump first then gzip it after?
I do it all the time: dump -f - ... | gzip date_filesystem.dump.gz
or with bzip2: dump -f - ... | bzip2
On 8/16/07, John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thursday 16 August 2007, Grant Peel wrote:
Can I safely pump a filesystem dump through gzip during the dumping
process?, or di I need to create the dump first then gzip it after?
I do it all the time: dump -f - ... | gzip
On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 09:10:12AM -0400, John Nielsen wrote:
On Thursday 16 August 2007, Grant Peel wrote:
Can I safely pump a filesystem dump through gzip during the dumping
process?, or di I need to create the dump first then gzip it after?
I do it all the time: dump -f - ... | gzip