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Date:      Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:31:54 +0200
From:      Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>
To:        Simon <simon@optinet.com>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: network backup
Message-ID:  <20021213103154.GA2398@straylight.oblivion.bg>
In-Reply-To: <20021213082019.0A66B43EDC@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20021213052738.T5723-100000@extortion.peterh.dropbear.id.au> <20021213082019.0A66B43EDC@mx1.FreeBSD.org>

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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

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