Re: rsync 3.1.1 zlib might not work

Dewayne Geraghty dewayne.gerag...@heuristicsystems.com.au wrote: Emanuel, Thanks for bringing to our attention, I transmit ~900MB of backups over the WAN rather than the uncompressed 9G database. You've saved a client excess use charges. I tested using highly compressible data (mostly

Re: rsync 3.1.1 zlib might not work

Thanks for your report. I was able to confirm this: --- output of regression test begins here --- # 3.1.1 root@wiggles:/tmp/test # rm dst/*; rsync -z -avP src/. dst/ This rsync lacks old-style --compress due to its external zlib. Try -zz. Continuing without compression. sending incremental file

Re: rsync 3.1.1 zlib might not work

On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 02:55:27PM +0200, Emanuel Haupt wrote: Thanks for your report. I was able to confirm this: This is by design: https://git.samba.org/?p=rsync.git;a=blob;f=options.c;h=62dfe4f022474ad08b13988fa7fd8875c4cff2b6;hb=HEAD#l1840 regards, Bapt pgpQ86mpol0lk.pgp Description: PGP

Re: rsync 3.1.1 zlib might not work

Emanuel, Thanks for bringing to our attention, I transmit ~900MB of backups over the WAN rather than the uncompressed 9G database. You've saved a client excess use charges. I tested using highly compressible data (mostly nulls) and it seems to work as expected. Without -z or -zz: Sent 593 bytes