Hello, Rsync is great, thanks to all who work on it. Does anyone have any good strategies for keeping the backups on the remote side compressed on disk? I'm under the impression that gzipping the files would not work as they would not be available to rsync in the uncompressed state for subsequent backups. A compressed filesystem would be prefect, but the only references I could find was for a non-production quality kernel mod for ext2 (I'm running ext3). Has anyone else tackled this issue? Thanks, Drew
On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 01:20:45PM -0700, Kevin Day wrote:> There is a build of GZip (under Debian I think) that has an rsync > friendly option.This is useful if the files are compressed at the source. If you want only the destination side to be compressed, you'll need something beyond a stock rsync. One option that I'm aware of is the BackupPC program which is referenced on the "resources" page of rsync's website.> I have posted a patch for zlib to this newsgroup with code that makes > zlib rsync friendly (along with some extra optimizations over the GZip > implementation).The patch is in the "patches" dir of the rsync distribution under the name gzip-rsyncable-checksum.diff. ..wayne..