> > Unless I am missing something... > No, you're not missing anything. Effectively THIS is the hard part:
> Even if you did somehow pre-compress files and pipe them onto the > client side rsync, you would probably break the ability for rsync to > tell changed files based on stat'ing the file size... > One can probably feed rsync with a pre-processed version of the filesystem, and that's what will be backed up. But this will inevitably end up in re-compressing everything on every rsync session. There is probably no way out if one wants to do it client side, as the OP wanted. Regards, Guillermo
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