Dump + GZIP

2007-08-16 Thread Grant Peel
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

Re: Dump + GZIP

2007-08-16 Thread John Nielsen
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

Re: Dump + GZIP

2007-08-16 Thread Federico Lorenzi
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

Re: Dump + GZIP

2007-08-16 Thread Roland Smith
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