2009/3/7 Dirk Heinrichs > Am Samstag, 7. März 2009 21:13:49 schrieb Dirk Heinrichs: > > Am Samstag, 7. März 2009 17:04:17 schrieb Grant: > > > I'm backing up numerous large files on another machine on my local > > > network. I've only been using rsync, but it occured to me that I > > > might be able to save some time and space if I incorporate tar and > > > bzip2. How will rsync interact with those? If I turn the whole > > > backup into a big tar.bz2, would rsync need to redownload the whole > > > thing if I change one file? If so, maybe I should turn different > > > groups of files into tar.bz2 archives so rsync only needs to > > > redownload an archive if one of its files has changed? > > > > By using either rsh or ssh, tar can backup over the net, too. > > OTOH, I think rsync is still the better solution, because even for large > files, > it only sends the deltas. But in the end, you will be doing some time > measurements to find the best solution, anyway ;-) > > Bye... > > Dirk > rsync -z -z, --compress compress file data during the transfer --compress-level=NUM explicitly set compression level --skip-compress=LIST skip compressing files with suffix in LIST