Re: Compressed destination files

2006-11-30 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Matt McCutchen wrote: Currently, the only way to make rsync do this is with the experimental patch source-filter_dest-filter.diff, which is distributed in patches/ in the rsync source package. If you compile a custom version of rsync containing this patch, you can specify bzip2 as the

Compressed destination files

2006-11-29 Thread Joshua Grauman
Hello, I searched the list and found some similar questions, but no answer, so... I would like to do an incremental backup using rsync where all the files at the destination end are compressed (bz2). I'm backing up to a usb flash drive and would like to fit as much as possible on it. I would

Re: Compressed destination files

2006-11-29 Thread Matt McCutchen
On 11/29/06, Joshua Grauman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to do an incremental backup using rsync where all the files at the destination end are compressed (bz2). Currently, the only way to make rsync do this is with the experimental patch source-filter_dest-filter.diff, which is

Re: Compressed destination files

2006-11-29 Thread Joshua Grauman
Thanks for the info. FYI I tried the patch and it appears to have worked. I'll keep the list updated if I find any errors... A couple ideas. Rather than only using the time stamps to determine if files need updating the file size could also be used by 1) putting the filesize into the new