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6:24 pm
Hi,
I was wondering if it was possible to pass to the tar command to generate a compressed tar.bz2 or .tar.gz file during backup and compression.
For example, in Configuration>General under Server Use Options there are 2 fields, one for tar path and command and for mysqldump. In the tar path and command box, can I change it from just "tar" to "tar -j" for bzip2 or "tar -z" for gzip? Will it properly create the .tar.bz2 or tar.gz file?
Thanks!
6:32 pm
September 26, 2010
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That could work if you set the Manual Backup option to No and Activate the tar server utility. Let me know how it goes...
6:48 pm
Going to try now. Can you explain what the Manual backup option does exactly? It's a little unclear....
6:52 pm
XCloner! Support said:
That could work if you set the Manual Backup option to No and Activate the tar server utility. Let me know how it goes...
Doesn't seem to work. I checked the path for "tar" which is located in /bin/tar so I entered: /bin/tar -j and I received this error:
Backup failed! Please check that you have support for the tar utility(/usr/bin/tar or /usr/local/bin/tar) on your server and the path you set it's corect in Configuration, or choose the Zip archive type!
Maybe I can replace tar with zip?
6:54 pm
Shaya said:
XCloner! Support said:
That could work if you set the Manual Backup option to No and Activate the tar server utility. Let me know how it goes...
Doesn't seem to work. I checked the path for "tar" which is located in /bin/tar so I entered: /bin/tar -j and I received this error:
Backup failed! Please check that you have support for the tar utility(/usr/bin/tar or /usr/local/bin/tar) on your server and the path you set it's corect in Configuration, or choose the Zip archive type!
Maybe I can replace tar with zip?
Replacing with /usr/bin/zip (location of zip on my server) didn't work either. While I think it's great I can generate tar files, I think this would be much better if they can be compressed instead of just archived. Any idea on how to do this?
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