Re: xfsdump & compression? (was: Re: xfsdump aborts after assertionfailure)

["Bernhard R. Erdmann" <be@berdmann.de>]

> > 2. xfsdump -J -F - / | gzip | dd of=$TAPE bs=32k
> 
> Option 2 will nullify all of xfsdump's fault tolerance features when
> writing to tape.  In other words, if there's a tape error or you hit the
> end of tape, xfsdump can't recover.

Good point. Does xfsdump's fault tolerance depend on writing/reading
to/from tape itself or will xfsrestore be happy when being fed out of a
pipe, too?