Re: Corrupt gzipped exports on Solaris 2.6

From: Frank <frank.brauer_at_N_O__S_P_A_M.talknet.de>
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 18:28:21 +0100
Message-ID: <BIbK7.6594$tj6.813601807@news.tli.de>

"Chuck" <chuck_hamilton_at_yahoo.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:9tbb11$1fvse$1_at_ID-85580.news.dfncis.de...
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> I'm already doing something like that. I'm piping (using a named
> pipe) a stream into gzip. It completes with no errors or warnings but
> when tou try to extract it you get garbage. I've tried the "cat"
> method to extract too but still get the same garbage.
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> Chuck

Hi Chuck,

Depending on the size of your backupfile you may have the problem on both sides (input and output). The input can through a pipe to avoid the problem. The 'output trick' is to force gzip to write to stdout and redirect it this to a file. If your filesystem is large file aware it should work (my backup script do this every night).

Frank Received on Mon Nov 19 2001 - 11:28:21 CST