An rsync client can specify data compression by means of the -z option. Under Linux, an rsync server can specify that compression is not allowed by means of dont compress = * in the /etc/rsyncd.conf file. The thing is, the man page for rsyncd.conf says that this setting applies to served files. This would seem to imply that, if the client is pushing a set of files/directories with the -z option, compression will take place, even in the presence of 'dont compress = *' in /etc/rsyncd.conf in the server system. However, if the client is pulling files from the server then no compression will take place, no matter what the client says. Is this a correct interpretation? If so, is there a way for the server to prevent compression from taking place, under all circumstances, and no matter how the client was invoked? In a nutshell, what I would be interested in is for the server to be able to decide whether or not compression is going to be used. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/rsync/attachments/20190624/a4e00d75/attachment.htm>