rsbackup tutorial availability

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 10:56:52AM -0500, Keith wrote:
> On 9/23/21 10:27 AM, Colin Watson wrote:
> > 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.

That's compression for data transfer (e.g. over the network via ssh),
not for storage.

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Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]