I currently do this with zlibc "Transparently access compressed files." 0.9e. The files are compressed on the disk, but appear uncompress to all apps including rsync.
Joe On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 19:55, Martin Pool wrote: > ----- Forwarded message from Paulo da Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- > > From: Paulo da Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: rsync: Request for a feature > Date: Sun, 02 May 2004 17:09:11 +0100 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040317 > X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.9 required=3.2 tests=BAYES_10 autolearn=ham > version=2.63 > > 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 > > ----- End forwarded message ----- -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
