From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Dec 13 8:39:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F2D637B401 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 08:39:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from cobra.acceleratedweb.net (cobra-gw.acceleratedweb.net [207.99.79.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D433343EE6 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 08:39:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from simon@optinet.com) Received: (qmail 34900 invoked by uid 106); 13 Dec 2002 16:44:19 -0000 Received: from 24-90-121-13.nyc.rr.com (HELO station1) (24.90.121.13) by cobra.acceleratedweb.net with SMTP; 13 Dec 2002 16:44:19 -0000 From: "Simon" To: "Peter Pentchev" Cc: "freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org" , "freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org" Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 11:41:37 -0500 Reply-To: "Simon" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.10.2010) For Windows 2000 (5.0.2195;2) In-Reply-To: <20021213103154.GA2398@straylight.oblivion.bg> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: network backup Message-Id: <20021213163949.D433343EE6@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 nbari@unixmexico.com wrote: >> > >> >> Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 23:00:41 -0600 (CST) >> >> From: nbari@unixmexico.com >> >> To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG >> >> 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 roam@ringlet.net roam@FreeBSD.org >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 majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message