Ahh crap, I looked thru that page, but didnt notice that. My fault :D On 9/27/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFG/AW/aIeIEqwil4YRAk0WAJ4lN73r36HQYVzdsKZ2iTWyKYNIowCg4hbU > CXuksZN276h8UGrltcq5zlU= > =wwKe > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >
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