Re: [Dorset] rsync with compression

2011-06-26 Thread Andrew Morgan
On 26/06/11 17:40, Tim wrote: I have a single disk nas which I back up to a external hard disk using rsync, the total amount of data I backup from the nas is about 235gb. At the moment I use rsync to copy it from the nas to the external hard disk, but I am thinking about using the -z option to

Re: [Dorset] rsync with compression

2011-06-26 Thread Tim
On 26/06/11 18:09, Andrew Morgan wrote: On 26/06/11 17:40, Tim wrote: I have a single disk nas which I back up to a external hard disk using rsync, the total amount of data I backup from the nas is about 235gb. At the moment I use rsync to copy it from the nas to the external hard disk, but I

Re: [Dorset] rsync with compression

2011-06-26 Thread Victor Churchill
go to external archive disk find . -exec gzip -9 {} \; * Caution! * This will compress the files you have already transferred. Trouble is, you will then have an archive of zipped files and next time you run rsync (even with -z, as noted above) it is likely to want to transfer the files all over