Re: rsync compression options

2004-03-09 Thread Wayne Davison
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 11:57:22PM +0100, roland wrote: > is the "only" compression in rsync zlib compression ? Yes, the zlib version is a special one that is tightly coupled to rsync, so that is the only compression that rsync will ever (directly) support. If you want some other compression, you'

rsync compression options

2004-03-09 Thread roland
hi ! is the "only" compression in rsync zlib compression ? i would like to rsync huge files, which are compressible very good - i wondered how i could use lzop as an compresion option. unfortunately, rsync has no option "--use-compress-program=/path/to/bzip2,lzop,compress,whatever", like gnu