[SunHELP] how to Tar+gzip on Solaris

[Vishal]

Hello All,

Thanks you very much for the Reply, After the Gzip its 5.89 Mb now :)

Thanks again.

Vishal
----- Original Message -----
From: "vinod kumar pissey" <vinod.pissey at hal.hitachi.com>
To: "'Vishal'" <vishal at netsolutionsindia.net>
Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 5:30 PM
Subject: RE: [SunHELP] how to Tar+gzip on Solaris


> Hi Vishal
>
> The procedure to use tar and gzip is below.
>
> Tar -cvf backup.tar /etc/named.conf /usr/dns
>
> One this is done do a gzip using
>
> Gzip -9 backup.tar
>
> This should do.
>
>
> Thanks
> Regards
> Vinod Kumar Pissey
> Systems Support,Hitachi
> 1-800-363-2494
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sunhelp-bounces at sunhelp.org [mailto:sunhelp-bounces at sunhelp.org] On
> Behalf Of Vishal
> Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 3:29 AM
> To: The SunHELP List
> Subject: [SunHELP] how to Tar+gzip on Solaris
>
> BlankHello All,
>
> I m a Newbie to Solaris, I need to backup the files with tar and gzip ,
this
> is what i used ;
>
> tar -cvf ns1_backup.tar.gz /etc/named.conf /usr/dns
>
> The file size goes to 22MB is this Normal ???  We use solaris as our DNS
> server mainly and its has got huge amount of Domains but will the file
size
> go 22Mb, I dunno if i m putting it right in words but what i want is did
it
> gzip'd or only tarrred with above option ????
>
> Thanks in Advance
>
> Vishal.
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