On Mon 05 Oct 2015, Charles wrote:
>
> The question I want answering is "Does rsync need telling not to
> compress when SOURCE and DEST are both local or does it automatically
> choose a sane compression setting?"
If you don't ask rsync to compress, it won't compress...
That's different from
You need to explicitly enable it. (-z)
-Original Message-
From: rsync [mailto:rsync-boun...@lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of Charles
Sent: Monday, October 05, 2015 7:32 AM
To: rsync@lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: What is the default compression level for local synchronisation?
On 05/10/15
On 05/10/15 17:30, rsync-requ...@lists.samba.org wrote:
>> Should we use --compress-level=0 for local synchronisation? We
>> are using rsync 3.0.9 and 3.1.1.
> You should not use compression at all on local copies. It is nothing
> but wasted CPU cycles.
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https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11541
Bug ID: 11541
Summary: "use slp" directive removed from slp.diff during
migration to 3.1.0
Product: rsync
Version: 3.1.2
Hardware: All
OS: All
