rsync mystery

[Owen Townend]

On 20/05/2008, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>
>     More and more interesting. I checked my regular backup and it is 2.9
>  GB. This is close to the 2.87 GB I really have now. I am using rsync
>  -avz /usr /media/disk and there are like 8 of these.
>
>
>  Karl

Hey,
  Slightly tangential, but why are you using the -z switch for a local rsync?
  This option is for compressing during transmission and has no effect
on the resulting backup's size. Using it for a local backup wastes a
lot of cpu time compressing and expanding each file.

cheers,
Owen.