[Dump-devel] Re: Dump through a named pipe (FIFO)

[Chris de V. <cde...@ya...>]

--- Stelian Pop <st...@po...> wrote:
> Well, the straighforward way is the one you specify
> below:
> > 
> > By the way, this:
> > dump 0bdsf 64 100000 100000 - /tmp | ssh
> user@remote
> > "dd bs=64k of=test.dump"
> > was already thought of.  Won't work with this
> setup.
> 
> Why ? It should work and it is definately the
> recommended way <snip>

And it has worked well for me in the past.

This setup, a web-based GUI backup, only allows me to
execute a pre and post backup script.  The actual
backup uses dump and can't be altered to also include
ssh, so I had been testing out dumping through a FIFO.
  As I said, it _almost_ works.  I don't get it.

So, do you have an idea why dump hangs when the output
file is a FIFO?  The file system is ext2 and kernel is
2.2.16.  I'd really appreciate it.

Do you suppose it matters that the FIFO is being
copied over SSH?

/dev/idal

P.S. Thanks for letting me know those flags have been
depricated; I'll stop using them.

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