On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 11:23:56AM -0400, Brian Johnson wrote:
> I'm using rsync to backup my main hard drive to a second hard drive.
> Although it is currently a local hard drive, I intend to switch to backup to
> a remote location.
>
> My question is:
> It seems that rsync can compress the data for transmission, but is there a
> method to leave the files compressed on the backup hard drive. I know I
> don't want one large zip file or a windows style compressed drive because
> restoring damaged data would be mcuh more difficult (possibly impossible).
No there isn't, although it was talked about a long time ago. It would
make rsync's timestamp and filesize comparisons tough, although somebody
said that the size information at least is stored in the header of a
gzipped file.
- Dave Dykstra
