Hello, I searched the list and found some similar questions, but no answer, so... I would like to do an incremental backup using rsync where all the files at the destination end are compressed (bz2). I'm backing up to a usb flash drive and would like to fit as much as possible on it. I would also like to avoid rsync'ing to another directory on my hard drive, and then bzip'ing that. Done this way only the modified files will need to be copied/bzipped, and if I want to restore a single file it is easy. Any ideas? Thanks. Josh
On 11/29/06, Joshua Grauman <jnfo-c@grauman.com> wrote:> I would like to do an incremental backup using rsync where all the files > at the destination end are compressed (bz2).Currently, the only way to make rsync do this is with the experimental patch "source-filter_dest-filter.diff", which is distributed in "patches/" in the rsync source package. If you compile a custom version of rsync containing this patch, you can specify bzip2 as the source or destination filter. Read the top of the patch for more information. The patch is only a first attempt, so you might not want to trust it with your backups yet. Matt