Re: Backup to Tape Incomplete

On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Phillip Smith
<phillip(dot)smith(at)weatherbeeta(dot)com(dot)au> wrote:
>> PostgreSQL 8.2.4
>> RedHat ES4
>>
>> I have a nightly cron job that is (supposed) to dump a specific
>> database to magnetic tape:
>> /usr/local/bin/pg_dump dbname > /dev/st0
>>
>> This runs, and doesn't throw any errors, but when I try to restore it
>> fails because the tape is incomplete:

> A couple of possible things to try; pg_dump to a text file and try
cat'ting that to the tape drive, or pipe it through tar and then to the
tape.

What would the correct syntax be for that - I can't figure out how to make
tar accept stdin:

[postgres(at)stirling ~]$ pg_dump dbname | tar cvf /dev/st0
tar: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive
Try `tar --help' for more information.
[postgres(at)stirling ~]$ pg_dump dbname | tar cvf /dev/st0 -
tar: -: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
[postgres(at)stirling ~]$

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