You can switch to a filesystem that supports transparent encrytpion (Reiser, ZFS, NTFS, others depending on your OS). Rsync would be completely unaware of any file-system level compression in that case.
Or you can use gzip with the --rsyncable option. Not all distributions of gzip support --rsyncable, as the last officially "stable" release of gzip was way back in 2003. On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Mag Gam <magaw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello All, > > I have been using rsync to backup several filesystems by using Mike > Rubel's hard link method > (http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/). > > The problem is, I am backing up a lot of ASCII .log, csv, and .txt > files. These files are large and can range anywhere from 1GB to 30GB. > I was wondering if on the target side (the backup side), if I can use > some sort of compression. I am using ext3 filesystem. > > Any ideas? > > TIA > -- > Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. > To unsubscribe or change options: > https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync > Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > -- RPM -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html