Re: Pipe to tar or other compressor

Daniel Pittman <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.linux.new-zealand.general
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On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 01:50, Peter <[email protected]> wrote:

> How do you pipe to something that will compress well?

] mysqldump | {xz, bzip2, gzip}

> Ive tried this:
>  mysqldump {opts} | 7za a -t7z -an -si -so > outfile.7z
> doesnt work becasue 7z needs to seek

Yah.  Also, if you read the documentation, 7za is highly unrecommended
for use on Unix because it doesn't preserve much data.  If you needed
to collate multiple files you would better have used tar and xz
format.  Since you had only one, just xz would be the best choice. :)

Daniel
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