Compressing Backups?

[slgordon]

Does anyone know a good way to compress a backup in Linux?

 

[MikeLacey]

Hi,

How are you doing your backups?

If you're doing something like:

backup_command > /dev/rmt0

then you could do something like

backup_command | compress > /dev/rmt0

Mike
michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com

 

[slgordon]

I'm using tar -cvf /dev/rmt0 "/dir"

 

[chgwhat]

Try tar -cIvf /dev/rmt0 "/dir" for Bzip2
or tar -czvf /dev/rmt0 "/dir" for gzip

Tony ... aka chgwhat
tony_b@technologist.com

When in doubt,,, Power out...

 

[slgordon]

Thanks!
That works like a champ!