Re: question about piping and standard output



On Wed, 31 May 2006 13:00:15 -0400, "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Why don't you compress the file before splitting it? Untested:

dump -0 -a -u -f - /dev/sda1 | gzip -c | split -b2000m - foo.dump

And test the reverse operation before trusting it ;) Splitting
after compression seems the correct approach for this scenario.

Grant.
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