rsbackup tutorial availability

Keith keith at caramail.com
Thu Sep 23 15:56:52 UTC 2021


On 9/23/21 10:27 AM, Colin Watson wrote:
> [skipping the bits Ian already answered]
>
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 04:18:24PM +0200, Bo Berglund wrote:
>> Another question about rsbackup:
>> Does it compress the data on the target backup drive?
>
> No.  If you wanted to do this, you'd need to use a fancy filesystem such
> as ZFS or btrfs that supports compression.

According to rsbackup (5) the "rsync-base-options" directive supplies
the following default options to the rsync command: --archive --sparse
--numeric-ids *--compress* --fuzzy --hard-links --delete --stats.

--
Keith




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