On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 08:39:23PM +0100, Mauro Condarelli wrote: > Hi there! > I'm quite happily using rsync. > There is only one case where I couldn't figure out how to use it > efficently: > I sometimes have large compressed files (either .tar.gz or .zip) that > I need to keep synchronized. The exploded files are usually not > available on the machines i use for rsync (to keep everything unpacked > would mean wasting a lot of space on the server). > The problem is that even if I change slightly the content of the > archive (just add a file) the compressed form will be almost > completely different making rsync algorythm practically useless. > Is there any easy way to tell the daemon to unpack (or just > uncompress) a compressed archive before doing the matching? > The problem is not severe with .zip archives, but .gz and .bz2 are > really inefficient. > > Thanks in advance for any hint > Mauro
No, sorry rsync can't do it. I answered a similar question just last week. Many people have asked but nobody has made a patch. It's probably doable but not trivial. - Dave Dykstra