[TriLUG] Using gzip to backup postgres to tape

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Andrew Perrin wrote:

> pg_dump actually produces tar output (that's the -F t option).

OK. (Just guessing) gzip may not handle tar format. Can you 
leave off the -F t ?

what about

/usr/bin/pg_dump leted | tar -czf /dev/nst0 -

Joe

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