rsyncing from a compressed tarball.
Ed Peschko
horos22 at gmail.com
Wed Dec 7 17:59:24 UTC 2016
Mike,
As it stands right now, we use xz for our compression, so if rsync had
a similar option for xz that would probably be an improvement.
However, I think being able to decompress directly to the remote
system would save more; elsewise I don't see how I'm going to be able
to avoid untarring and uncompressing the whole xz file on the other
end.
thanks much,
ed
On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 8:36 PM, Mike Hodson <mystica at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 8:07 PM, Ed Peschko <horos22 at gmail.com> 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)?
>>
>
> I'm curious if rsyncing the entire compressed tarball might work for you, if
> you compress the tarball with the gzip option of --rsyncable and then
> rsync with --inplace ?
>
> Mike
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