From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 13 8:56:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D30337B401; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 08:56:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BC3243EDA; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 08:56:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) id gBDGuPjT021663; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 10:56:25 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 10:56:25 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Simon Cc: Peter Pentchev , "freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org" , "freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org" Subject: Re: network backup Message-ID: <20021213165625.GB91604@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20021213103154.GA2398@straylight.oblivion.bg> <20021213163949.D46E643EEA@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021213163949.D46E643EEA@mx1.FreeBSD.org> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-RC X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Dec 13), Simon said: > 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. rsync is for synchronizing two directories, and needs to be able to read the files on both sides for the sync algorithm to work. If you just want to back directories up, use tar, and add the 'z' flag to compress the tarball. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message