Re: rsyncing from a compressed tarball.

2016-12-08 Thread devzero
try archivemount or squashfs Am 8. Dezember 2016 11:43:07 MEZ, schrieb Simon Hobson : >Ed Peschko wrote: > >> As it stands right now, we use xz for our compression, so if rsync >had >> a similar option for xz that would probably be an improvement. > >Have xz as an option for what ? >As others hav

Re: rsyncing from a compressed tarball.

2016-12-08 Thread Simon Hobson
Ed Peschko wrote: > As it stands right now, we use xz for our compression, so if rsync had > a similar option for xz that would probably be an improvement. Have xz as an option for what ? As others have already pointed out, rsync works with files on filesystems - it does not work with files emb

Re: rsyncing from a compressed tarball.

2016-12-07 Thread Kevin Korb
Can you use a fuse mount to pretend that the tarball is a filesystem? Also, there is squashfs. On 12/07/2016 12:59 PM, Ed Peschko wrote: > Mike, > > As it stands right now, we use xz for our compression, so if rsync had > a similar option for xz that would probably be an improvement. > > However

Re: rsyncing from a compressed tarball.

2016-12-07 Thread Ed Peschko
Mike, As it stands right now, we use xz for our compression, so if rsync had a similar option for xz that would probably be an improvement. However, I think being able to decompress directly to the remote system would save more; elsewise I don't see how I'm going to be able to avoid untarring and

Re: rsyncing from a compressed tarball.

2016-12-06 Thread Kevin Korb
The only ways this would be possible are if you sync the tarball itself or if you use a fuse filesystem to mount the tarball and rsync the files within it. On 12/06/2016 10:07 PM, Ed Peschko wrote: > All, > > I'm working in an environment *very* restricted by space, and need to > sync from that l

rsyncing from a compressed tarball.

2016-12-06 Thread Ed Peschko
All, I'm working in an environment *very* restricted by space, and need to sync from that location to another location. So I'd like to be able to sync from a source that is not a filesystem, like a compressed tarball. Is this possible with the --files-from argument (or some other such argument)?