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 - ... | gz

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 > date_f

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 > date