How to pipe the stdout to a file if the current command is already being piped through gzip

Question

So I have this command I need to run then disown:

innobackupex-1.5.1 --user=root --password=**** --stream=tar ./ | gzip - > /data/myfile.tar.gz

How do I pipe any output to a file?

adding another >> to the end of this command only appends the gzip data.

to be more specific; innobackupex has progress output - I want this output appended/piped to a file (not just errors). The normal way of doing this (by adding >>) will not work in this case due to the gzip already piping

Solution

innobackupex doesn't output its progress on stdout, otherwise, it would end up in the tar.gz file. Most likely, it outputs it to stderr (a quick glance at the script seems to confirm it), so what you need to do is redirect its stderr:

innobackupex ... 2>> progress.log | gzip > file.tar.gz

Comments

[goldilocks]

Really ambiguous question Tom. Just look at your answers.

[Tom G11]

STDOUT from innobackupex piped to a file would be since there is a lot of information - especially progress information -

[tink]

Ummm ... that doesn't explain what you want to achieve, either. You're already handling STDOUT from innobackupex using the pipe into gzip.