04-18-2007
Ok, I have no way to test this, but I would try something like this:
tar -vf - /tmp/dir1/ /tmp/dir2/ /tmp/dir3/ | gzip -c | tar -vf /dev/rmt/0n -
I am trying to tar the directories to stdout | then compress (hope you have gzip) | and then try tar'ing the resulting gzip file.
I cannot believe a utility like tar having compression will be as good as gzip's.
If you get really desparate, you could change to gzip -c9 to do a tighter compression, at the expense of time.
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rdiffdir
RDIFFDIR(1) User Manuals RDIFFDIR(1)
NAME
rdiffdir - compute and apply signatures and diffs to directories
SYNOPSIS
rdiffdir [options] sig[nature] basis_dir signature_file
rdiffdir [options] delta signature_file new_dir delta_file
rdiffdir [options] patch basis_dir delta_file
rdiffdir [options] tar basis_dir tar_file
If signature_file or delta_file are "-", the data will be read from stdin or written to stdout as appropriate.
DESCRIPTION
rdiffdir is supposed to be like rdiff, but can operate on directories. See rdiff(1) for more information. The syntax is similar.
OPTIONS
--write-sig-to sigfile
This option is only used in delta and tar modes. When specified, rdiffdir will write a signature of the directory it is processing
to sigfile. The end result will be a delta and a new signature calculated over the same data.
-z, --gzip-compress
Enable gzip compression and decompression of signature and delta files.
SELECTION OPTIONS
In signature and delta modes, rdiffdir accepts duplicity-like selection options including --exclude, --exclude-filelist-stdin, etc. See
the duplicity(1) manual page for more information.
BUGS
Hard links are currently unsupported (they will be treated as non-linked regular files).
Bad signatures will be treated as empty instead of logging appropriate error message.
AUTHOR
Ben Escoto <bescoto@stanford.edu>
SEE ALSO
duplicity(1), python(1), rdiff(1), rdiff-backup(1).
Version 0.6.18 February 29, 2012 RDIFFDIR(1)