On Tue 27 Jan 2009, Paul Slootman wrote: > No, the data over the wire is compressed with the -z option; not the > file.
Correction: more specifically, the data between the sender and the receiver processes is compressed. Unfortunately this also happens when the transfer is local and -z happens to be passed as an option; the result is that the transfer is slowed down significantly without any benefit at all. Rsync should perhaps give a warning about the useless use of -z and maybe ignore it? Paul -- 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
