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From: Paulo da Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: rsync: Request for a feature
Date: Sun, 02 May 2004 17:09:11 +0100
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Hi.
1st. of all thank you for mantaining this very useful program.
It helps me a lot in a lot of tasks that would be otherwise very
tedious and time consuming.
However, I think that a small feature could make it yet more
powerfull when used as a backup tool.
The idea was to have a switch so that files could be kept
compressed at the destination. These compressed files could
be then restored the same way specifing a switch telling that
source files are to be uncompressed.
Files with known extensions (.gz, .zip, ...) should not be
compressed/uncompressed.
All files must keep the original names unchanged.
Ex.
export RSYNC_COMPRESSED_EXTS=".gz .zip ..." ;# Extensions from files
not to be compressed
Backup:
rsync -av --delete --zip MyDir/ BackupDir
Restore:
rsync -av --delete --unzip BackupDir/ MyDir
This is only a sugestion. You may find a better solution.
Thank you.
Paulo da Silva
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