rsyncing from a compressed tarball.

Kevin Korb kmk at sanitarium.net
Wed Dec 7 03:33:28 UTC 2016


The only ways this would be possible are if you sync the tarball itself
or if you use a fuse filesystem to mount the tarball and rsync the files
within it.

On 12/06/2016 10:07 PM, Ed Peschko wrote:
> All,
> 
> I'm working in an environment *very* restricted by space, and need to
> sync from that location to another location.
> 
> So I'd like to be able to sync from a source that is not a filesystem,
> like a compressed tarball.
> 
> Is this possible with the --files-from argument (or some other such argument)?
> 
> If not, what approach would people suggest in adding it?
> 
> thanks much for any support,
> 
> ed
> 

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