rsbackup tutorial availability

Keith keith at caramail.com
Thu Sep 23 16:26:41 UTC 2021


On 9/23/21 11:12 AM, Colin Watson wrote:
> 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.
>

Ah, ok. Thanks for the clarification.

--
Keith




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