| From: | "D'Arcy J(dot)M(dot) Cain" <darcy(at)druid(dot)net> |
|---|---|
| To: | Alexandros Perdikomatis <menippos(at)otenet(dot)gr> |
| Cc: | pgsql-help(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-interfaces(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Database backup |
| Date: | 2003-01-19 02:59:00 |
| Message-ID: | 200301182159.00497.darcy@druid.net |
| Views: | Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email |
| Thread: | |
| Lists: | pgsql-interfaces |
Redirecting to help list as it seems more appropriate.
On Saturday 18 January 2003 09:17, Alexandros Perdikomatis wrote:
> Question: Am I too stupid to use tar?
I'm sure not but you may misunderstand what tar does. Tar is for storing a
collection of files into an archive. It expects to find the list of files on
the command line in one form or another. If you don't write to a file first
then all you have is a stream of data, not a file.
> Some time I had no space on the filesystem to copy all the data in command
> mode (pg_dump) so I thought to pipe pg_dump to tar using a scsi tape
> archiver as output (/dev/rmt0).
> Why doesn't work?
What exactly was the problem? You may just have a device selection issue.
What system is this on?
--
D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy(at){druid|vex}.net> | Democracy is three wolves
http://www.druid.net/darcy/ | and a sheep voting on
+1 416 425 1212 (DoD#0082) (eNTP) | what's for dinner.
| From | Date | Subject | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Next Message | Jeroen T. Vermeulen | 2003-01-19 14:17:14 | Re: libpqxx: Cursors needed??! |
| Previous Message | Key88 SF | 2003-01-18 18:34:37 | Re: libpq C library Client Interface - select() |