On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 08:26:31PM -0500, Ron Kelley wrote: > Does rsync support a user-defined compression level option (similar to > gzip)? I have read through the mailing list archive and could not find any > specific thread which addresses this question. > > I would like to specify a medium level compression option (use more network > speed and less CPU overhead). Using gzip, I would use the -6 or -7 level > option instead of the default -9. I am trying to find the balance between > CPU overhead and network speed. > > Any ideas?
The compression library that rsync uses has that capability but rsync does not currently have any user interface to change the compress level, sorry. Maybe if somebody submitted a nice clean patch Martin would take it. - Dave Dykstra