Re: Best compressed archive_command on Linux?

sometimes tar (gnu tar) exited with nonzero status for no reason on my
system... no error msg or anything. I recommend something called star.

On Wednesday 11 April 2007, Sean Murphy wrote:
> I'm in the process of moving an 8.2 server from Win32 to Ubuntu Linux.
> On Win32, I implemented WAL archiving with the archive_command
> "rar a -ep -m5 -s -t -dh w:/%f.rar %p"
>
> Anyway, I'm going to use WAL archiving on the new server, and need the
> files to be compressed. My first inclination is to use
> "tar -czf /walarchive/%f.tar.gz %p > /dev/null"
>
> Before I go with that, though, I was wondering if anybody had any
> specific experience / advice with a better command, reasons why this
> command might fail zero or succeed nonzero, or additional/different
> options for tar that would yield better results.
>
> Thanks,
> Sean
>
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