sometimes tar (gnu tar) exited with nonzero status for no reason on my system... no error msg or anything. I recommend something called star. On Wednesday 11 April 2007, Sean Murphy wrote: > I'm in the process of moving an 8.2 server from Win32 to Ubuntu Linux. > On Win32, I implemented WAL archiving with the archive_command > "rar a -ep -m5 -s -t -dh w:/%f.rar %p" > > Anyway, I'm going to use WAL archiving on the new server, and need the > files to be compressed. My first inclination is to use > "tar -czf /walarchive/%f.tar.gz %p > /dev/null" > > Before I go with that, though, I was wondering if anybody had any > specific experience / advice with a better command, reasons why this > command might fail zero or succeed nonzero, or additional/different > options for tar that would yield better results. > > Thanks, > Sean > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq -- Eduardo J. Ortega - Linux user #222873 "No fake - I'm a big fan of konqueror, and I use it for everything." -- Linus Torvalds
