rsync with large gzip files.
Max Bowsher
maxb at ukf.net
Sun Oct 27 10:59:01 EST 2002
Leaw, Chern Jian <chern.jian.leaw at intel.com> wrote:
> # rsync -avz /fs10/archives/archive.gz hostB:/fs10/archives
Try without -z. If the file is already gzipped, you won't be losing much
time.
> # /usr/bin/rsync --version
> rsync version 2.4.6 protocol version 24
Quite old now. You should probably try upgrading. I think quite a few fixes
happened between 2.4.6 and 2.5.5 (current).
> Those g-zipped files were compressed using gzip version 1.2.4(18 Aug
> 93), and with the following method:
> # cat dir1 dir2 dir3 ... | gzip > archives.gz
What does cat-ing a directory do? My cat just gives the error 'Is a
directory'.
Max.
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