From: D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@druid.net>
To: Alexandros Perdikomatis <menippos@otenet.gr>
Cc: pgsql-help@postgresql.org
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Database backup
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 21:59:00 -0500
Message-ID: <200301182159.00497.darcy@druid.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200301181617.24700.menippos@otenet.gr>
References: <200301181617.24700.menippos@otenet.gr>
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?
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