Re: RSync with File Compression

2005-06-01 Thread Wayne Davison
On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 01:20:45PM -0700, Kevin Day wrote: > There is a build of GZip (under Debian I think) that has an rsync > friendly option. This is useful if the files are compressed at the source. If you want only the destination side to be compressed, you'll need something beyond a stock

re: RSync with File Compression

2005-06-01 Thread Kevin Day
Drew-   There is a build of GZip (under Debian I think) that has an rsync friendly option.  I have posted a patch for zlib to this newsgroup with code that makes zlib rsync friendly (along with some extra optimizations over the GZip implementation).   Take a look in the list archives and y

RSync with File Compression

2005-06-01 Thread Andrew Embury
Hello, Rsync is great, thanks to all who work on it. Does anyone have any good strategies for keeping the backups on the remote side compressed on disk? I'm under the impression that gzipping the files would not work as they would not be available to rsync in the uncompressed state for subsequent