rsync - May 2004 - (fwd from psdasilva@esoterica.pt) rsync: Request for a feature

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From: Paulo da Silva <psdasilva@esoterica.pt>
Subject: rsync: Request for a feature
Date: Sun, 02 May 2004 17:09:11 +0100
To: mbp@samba.org
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Hi.

1st. of all thank you for mantaining this very useful program.
It helps me a lot in a lot of tasks that would be otherwise very
tedious and time consuming.

However, I think that a small feature could make it yet more
powerfull when used as a backup tool.
The idea was to have a switch so that files could be kept
compressed at the destination. These compressed files could
be then restored the same way specifing a switch telling that
source files are to be uncompressed.
Files with known extensions (.gz, .zip, ...) should not be
compressed/uncompressed.
All files must keep the original names unchanged.

Ex.
   export RSYNC_COMPRESSED_EXTS=".gz .zip ..." ;# Extensions from
files
not to be compressed
Backup:
   rsync -av --delete --zip MyDir/ BackupDir
Restore:
   rsync -av --delete --unzip BackupDir/ MyDir

This is only a sugestion. You may find a better solution.

Thank you.
Paulo da Silva

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Martin 
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I currently do this with zlibc "Transparently access compressed
files."
0.9e.  The files are compressed on the disk, but appear uncompress to
all apps including rsync.

Joe

On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 19:55, Martin Pool wrote:
> ----- Forwarded message from Paulo da Silva <psdasilva@esoterica.pt>
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> From: Paulo da Silva <psdasilva@esoterica.pt>
> Subject: rsync: Request for a feature
> Date: Sun, 02 May 2004 17:09:11 +0100
> To: mbp@samba.org
> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040317
> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.9 required=3.2 tests=BAYES_10 autolearn=ham 
> 	version=2.63
> 
> Hi.
> 
> 1st. of all thank you for mantaining this very useful program.
> It helps me a lot in a lot of tasks that would be otherwise very
> tedious and time consuming.
> 
> However, I think that a small feature could make it yet more
> powerfull when used as a backup tool.
> The idea was to have a switch so that files could be kept
> compressed at the destination. These compressed files could
> be then restored the same way specifing a switch telling that
> source files are to be uncompressed.
> Files with known extensions (.gz, .zip, ...) should not be
> compressed/uncompressed.
> All files must keep the original names unchanged.
> 
> Ex.
>    export RSYNC_COMPRESSED_EXTS=".gz .zip ..." ;# Extensions from
files
> not to be compressed
> Backup:
>    rsync -av --delete --zip MyDir/ BackupDir
> Restore:
>    rsync -av --delete --unzip BackupDir/ MyDir
> 
> This is only a sugestion. You may find a better solution.
> 
> Thank you.
> Paulo da Silva
> 
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