Re: backingup data with rsync compressed to another host

On Wed, 03 Jan 2007 08:04:19 -0800, John wrote this:

Hello,

is it possible to have rsync written data compressed to another host? How?
(the data should be compressed on the target-host)


Thank's a lot for any feedback! John

I don't think so. You want rsync to do the compression?

You should make a script that does the rsync match then does the
compression on the other host.

#

rsync ~/this overthere:~/that
ssh overthere `tar --remove-files -zcvf `/that.tgz ~/that`

.

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