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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