Re: [Gnumed-devel] Problems dumping database (Mac limitation on su -c)

[Busser, Jim]

On 2011-10-24, at 2:20 AM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 06:22:00PM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:
> 
>> When on Mac OS calling tar as per the script
>> 
>>      gm-backup_database.sh
>> 
>> [...] with only -cf on Mac, one gets an uncompressed .tar archive.
> 
> Which is what we want.

Since AFAIK tar is lossless, do 'we want' uncompressed to avoid slowing the 
generation of the backup (i.e. no objection to lossless compression, just 
proposing to decouple it as a separate step) ?

Also does the script require all users to be logged off?

-- Jim