On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 15:16, Ira Abramov wrote: > Quoting Baruch Even, from the post of Thu, 19 Aug: > > > > You should check if your gzip runs with --rsyncable option, otherwise > > you don't save as much bandwidth as you want. The --rsyncable option > > oh, I didn't know I had to switch that on, I thought it was on by > default... this option is not listed in the gzip manpage, neither on my > woody not my sid! odd... > > no wait... gzip -h tells me about it on sid but not on woody (which my > server is running). weirder and weirder... does this mean rsyncs will be > heavier till I backport it from sid or upgrade to sarge? or should I opt > for bzip2 instead? I read once it's more compatible with rsync's diffs.
It is likely that gzip in woody doesn't have this option and the one in sid does. I actually think that bzip2 won't be a better option, but rsyncing the uncompressed files will probably be better. Alternatively you could find or roll out a system that will generate a directory with the original file once a month and the daily diffs afterwards, this way you'll have a recoverable way to return to the database x days backwards too. This will let you transfer only the daily diffs since the former diffs and the base file will be unchanged. Baruch ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
