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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers gzip instead of compress Post 302329704 by narayanv on Monday 29th of June 2009 10:29:22 AM
Old 06-29-2009
Hi,

The size of the backup file is 0 bytes.
Its not copying any files for backup.

-rw-r--r-- 1 appldev1 dba 0 Jun 29 08:34 oraInventory_062909.tgz

This is on AIX.

Regards,
Narayan

---------- Post updated at 07:59 PM ---------- Previous update was at 06:18 PM ----------

tar zcvf - ${sub_dir} > ${bkp_dir}/${bkp_file_name}.gz does not seem to be working on AIX.
Please suggest.

Regards
 

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