Re: [flexbackup-help] Problem using -pipe

[Steven W. O. <st...@sy...>]

On Thursday, May 10th 2007 at 21:55 +0100, quoth Paulo da Silva:

=>If I use -pipe (flexbackup -dir foo -pipe | split -b ... -
=>/bar/SomePrefix_) how do I then extract files using flexbackup?
=>
=>This does not work:
=>cat /bar/SomePrefix_* | flexbackup -extract -onefile SomeFile -pipe

I didn't know about the -pipe option and I had my hopes up that this would 
fix my problems, but -pipe is incompatible with -set (which I use).

I reported back a long time ago about how on occasion my flexbackup 
cronjob would make its backup files and then hang. Here's the relevant 
process info I get:

 3480 ?        Ss     0:01 crond
16571 ?        S      0:00  \_ crond
16572 ?        Ss     0:00  |   \_ /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/bin/flexbackup -set backup -incremental
16846 ?        Z      0:00  |   |   \_ [sh] <defunct>
16573 ?        S      0:00  |   \_ /usr/sbin/sendmail -FCronDaemon -i -odi -oem -oi -t
21193 ?        S      0:00  \_ crond
21194 ?        Ss     0:00  |   \_ /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/bin/flexbackup -set backup -differential
21377 ?        Z      0:00  |   |   \_ [sh] <defunct>
21195 ?        S      0:00  |   \_ /usr/sbin/sendmail -FCronDaemon -i -odi -oem -oi -t
17332 ?        S      0:00  \_ crond
17333 ?        Ss     0:00      \_ /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/bin/flexbackup -set backup -incremental
17705 ?        Z      0:00      |   \_ [sh] <defunct>
17334 ?        S      0:00      \_ /usr/sbin/sendmail -FCronDaemon -i -odi -oem -oi -t

526 > ps -ef | grep gzip
root     16860     1  0 Nov24 ?        00:00:01 gzip -9
root     21419     1  0 03:31 ?        00:00:03 gzip -9
steveo    5813  9890  0 10:28 pts/3    00:00:00 grep gzip
527 > 

Does anyone have a clue what can be done or is this really just a dead 
unsupported utility?

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