fback and gzip in one command

[ASH_27]

Hi

I want to backup my configuration directories and gzip it and stored it on to another partition. Can you please let me know the one command which will do fabackup and pipe that to execute gzip.

example
backup data from /home/test/ folder and gzip the file and then

and store backuped file on to /dailybackup/ folder

Thanks
Ashish

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom Ashish,

I do not think that fbackup will support gzipping all files as it goes. I would recommend a two step process.

gzip the configuration files to a location you have selected and then call fbackup command line after the files are zipped.

You can try something:

fbackup | gzip

or

gzip < fbackup

The results may be explosive or unreliable.

Suggested code:

tar cvf /dailybackup/config.tar
gzip /dailybackup/config.tar
fbackup

fbackup likes going to tape.

Sorry, three steps.

:-(

SEP

[Jeff_Traigle]

You should be able to do this pretty easily...

fbackup -f - -i /home/test | gzip > /daily/backup/home-test.fb.gz

As with compress, if no file is specified or - is specified, stdin is compressed to stdout so the redirection is required to save the compressed data to a file.

[OldSchool]

Also, you might want to look into GNU's tar, which supports gzipping files "on the fly"

[Dave La Mar]

Ashish -

Can you -
for i in `ls /home/test/folder`
do
cat $i | gzip > /dailybackup/$i.gz
done

Regards,

dl

[Muthukumar_5]

Can you exaplain this:

After taking backup with fbackup then piping to gzip to make gunzipped file. Then do you want to save that gunzipped file or unzipping that file and extract the files to /dailybackup/ directory?

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Muthu

[Muthukumar_5]

Why don't you do simply as,

# tar -cvf /dailybackup/backup.tar /home/test
# gunzip /dailybackup/backup.tar

You will have backup file as,

dailybackup/backup.tar.gz

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Muthu