need to modify file data before storing it on destination

[Kyle Jones]

jw schultz writes:
 > On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 12:37:27PM -0800, Kyle Jones wrote:
 > > I'd like to be able to store remote files compressed or encrypted
 > > or both.  I think this could be supported in a general way by
 > > having:
 > > 
 > >     1. an rsync option --remotefilter=command that specifies a
 > >        remote command that rsync pushes file data through before
 > >        storing it on disk.  This option would imply --whole-file.
 > >     2. an rsync option --times-only so that rsync would consider
 > >        only the modification time of the remote file when deciding
 > >        whether to update it.  This is needed so that rsync would
 > >        ignore the file size differences of compressed remote files.
 > 
 > Well, with that you have just disabled the primary
 > characteristic of rsync.  I'm not saying that a utility that
 > identifies files that have changed for a compressed remote
 > storage, just that this isn't rsync.

But isn't that also the case if --whole-file is used, an option that
rsync already has?  The chief advantage of rsync over rdist is
the checksum comparison code, which --whole-file disables.