RE: OT : compress & write to tape - how to ?

  • From: "Gogala, Mladen" <Mladen.Gogala@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: "'rgramolini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <rgramolini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 15:48:35 -0400

Newer versions of tar (GNU) have "z" argument, so it
would work like this: tar zcvf /dev/rmt0 /my/directory
If your tar doesn't support "z" flag, you can do it
like this:
tar cvf - /my/directory |compress|dd of=/dev/rmt0

You can also do it with cpio. If your cpio supports "-C" buffering,
you can play around with dd and speed things up significantly.


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Mladen Gogala
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ruth Gramolini [mailto:rgramolini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 3:32 PM
> To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: OT : compress & write to tape - how to ?
> 
> 
> We do it with the os command "compress /directory/*" then 
> copy it to tape. Nothing fancy, but it works.
> 
> HTH,
> Ruth
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On > Behalf Of Prem 
> Khanna J
> Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 3:14 AM
> To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: OT : compress & write to tape - how to ?
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> please excuse me for this OT question.
> 
> which is the best way to compress a directory
> and write to tape in AIX5.2L ?
> 
> i see various combinations of tar, gzip , dd ...
> on the net to do this task.
> 
> Regards,
> Prem.
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