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Tue, 25 Aug 2015 13:20:25 -0400
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Re: Does xfsdump compress automatically?
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not to my knowledge
however you can create a compressed version like this
"xfsdump -J - /mount/point |bzip2 -9 > dumpfile.dmp.bz2"
the -J tells it not to record it in the local dump inventory and the "
- " tels it to write to standard out

On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 1:24 AM, ToddAndMargo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am not finding any command line switches to turn
> compression on with xfsdump.  Is it automatic?
>
> Many thanks,
> -T
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