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...ly and doesn't use an existing remote-shell channel... ---------- so, this gives me some hope that this _could_ possible somehow. unfortunately i don`t have a clue, how to write the mentioned wrapper script. i think of something like this: rsync -a -dontConnect2RemoteHostButPipeToSTDOUT ./localdata2sync | lzop -c | netcat remothost 12345 where on remotehosts netcat listens to port 12345 and passes the data to lzop and then to rsync..... otoh, thinking about this, i`m not sure if a pipe could work, because rsync does bidirectional communication with the "remote" end. is something lik...