Re: Pipe to tar or other compressor
Cliff Pratt <[email protected]> Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:38:53 +1300
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On 17/10/11 11:13, David L Neil wrote:
> 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...)
>
Does tar compress? tar with -z does, but I thought that it just used
gzip with the -z option.
Cheers,
Cliff
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