Newer versions of tar (GNU) have "z" argument, so it
would work like this: tar zcvf /dev/rmt0 /my/directory
If your tar doesn't support "z" flag, you can do it
like this:
tar cvf - /my/directory |compress|dd of=/dev/rmt0
You can also do it with cpio. If your cpio supports "-C" buffering,
you can play around with dd and speed things up significantly.
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Mladen Gogala
A & E TV Network
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ruth Gramolini [mailto:rgramolini_at_tax.state.vt.us]
> Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 3:32 PM
> To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
> Subject: RE: OT : compress & write to tape - how to ?
>
>
> We do it with the os command "compress /directory/*" then
> copy it to tape. Nothing fancy, but it works.
>
> HTH,
> Ruth
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org
> [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]On > Behalf Of Prem
> Khanna J
> Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 3:14 AM
> To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
> Subject: OT : compress & write to tape - how to ?
>
>
> Hi all,
> please excuse me for this OT question.
>
> which is the best way to compress a directory
> and write to tape in AIX5.2L ?
>
> i see various combinations of tar, gzip , dd ...
> on the net to do this task.
>
> Regards,
> Prem.
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