Redirecting to help list as it seems more appropriate.
On Saturday 18 January 2003 09:17, Alexandros Perdikomatis wrote:
> Question: Am I too stupid to use tar?
I'm sure not but you may misunderstand what tar does. Tar is for storing a
collection of files into an archive. It expects to find the list of files on
the command line in one form or another. If you don't write to a file first
then all you have is a stream of data, not a file.
> Some time I had no space on the filesystem to copy all the data in command
> mode (pg_dump) so I thought to pipe pg_dump to tar using a scsi tape
> archiver as output (/dev/rmt0).
> Why doesn't work?
What exactly was the problem? You may just have a device selection issue.
What system is this on?
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