Tom Lane wrote:
"Phillip Smith" <phillip.smith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Phillip Smith
<phillip.smith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
A couple of possible things to try; pg_dump to a text file and try
cat'ting that to the tape drive, or pipe it through tar and then to the
tape.
What would the correct syntax be for that - I can't figure out how to make
tar accept stdin:
I don't think it can.
Coming in the middle of this thread, so slap me if I'm off base here.
tar will accept standard in as:
tar -cf -
the '-f -' says take input.
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