Re: Backup to Tape Incomplete

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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.

--
Until later, Geoffrey

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