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

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 05:58:55PM +0000, 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,

Anything else would be absurd.

> just proposing to
> decouple it as a separate step) ?

It is already decoupled.

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

No.

Karsten
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