Re: Backup to Tape Incomplete

Tom Lane wrote:
> "Phillip Smith" <phillip.smith@weatherbeeta.com.au> writes:
>> On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Phillip Smith
>> <phillip.smith@weatherbeeta.com.au> 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.

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