Re: Pipe to tar or other compressor

David L Neil <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.linux.new-zealand.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Peter,

On 10/17/2011 11:05 AM, Peter wrote:
> FTR the solution adopted is:
> /usr/bin/mysqldump {etc} > /home/tasks/backup/clientname-db-backup
> /bin/bzip2 -f /home/tasks/backup/clientname-db-backup

=it trades storage space for simplicity and indeed faster recovery from 
some failure in step two!

=does this also mean that you have performed side-by-side comparison on 
a range of compression algorithms/pgms and settled on bzip2 for 
MySQLdump/ASCII files?
(instead of (my-traditional) tar...)

-- 
Regards,
=dn

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