Received: from localhost (postgresql.org [64.49.215.8]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA5AC47590C; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 21:58:49 -0500 (EST) Received: from druid.net (druid.net [216.126.72.98]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 348FA474E5C; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 21:58:49 -0500 (EST) Received: by druid.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E16801C70; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 21:59:00 -0500 (EST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" Reply-To: pgsql-help@postgresql.org To: Alexandros Perdikomatis Subject: Re: Database backup Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 21:59:00 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <200301181617.24700.menippos@otenet.gr> In-Reply-To: <200301181617.24700.menippos@otenet.gr> Cc: pgsql-help@postgresql.org, pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200301182159.00497.darcy@druid.net> X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS new-20020517 X-Archive-Number: 200301/80 X-Sequence-Number: 3580 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 | 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.