I have before I sent this email. And unless I misread it, -z is to compress on sending side to make rsync use less bandwidth in remote backups, not to compress data (on the fly) on the receiving (backup) end.
-Simon On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:31:54 +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: >On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 03:22:06AM -0500, Simon wrote: >> On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 05:27:48 +0000 (GMT), Peter Hoskin wrote: >> >On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > >> >> Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 23:00:41 -0600 (CST) >> >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> Subject: network backup >> >> >> >> Hi all >> >> >> >> How can i make a backup of some dirs and send them to another server >> >> >> >> what is the best tool for doing that? >> >> >> >> rsync netcat or wich one do you recomend for making a huge backup ? >> > >> >rsync :) >> > >>=20 >> rsync is nice, but it can't (afaik) compress data being synced on the fly= > to >> save disk space :-( Is there anything out there which works like rsync and >> can compress on the fly to space disk space? having 100GB of text files >> compressed can save quite a few gigs. > >Take a look at the rsync manual page, specifically at the '-z' option :) > >G'luck, >Peter > >--=20 >Peter Pentchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] >PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc >Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 >The rest of this sentence is written in Thailand, on To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
