Re: can pbzip2 run on stdout?
Ahh crap, I looked thru that page, but didnt notice that. My fault :D
On 9/27/07, Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 02:57:40PM -0400, Stefhen Hovland wrote:
> > Is this possible for pbzip2 to run on a tar which outputs to standard out?
> >
> > I am trying to speed up a backup process which takes hours, i have
> > about 100g of uncompressed data which will be tar'd up and is
> > currently running thru gzip. This will be running on a 16 cpu box
> > which would greatly speedup this issue.
> >
> > from:
> >
> > tar cf - . | gzip > /tmp/file.tar.gz
> >
> > to:
> >
> > tar cf - . | pbzip2 > /tmp/file.tar.bz2
> >
> >
> > This doesnt seem to work, is it because there is no way to split the
> > stdio to multiple processors on the fly?
>
> per
>
> http://compression.ca/pbzip2/
>
> ToDo
>
> - Add support for input from stdin & pipes
>
> google man!
>
> A
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