BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] Compression during Xfer

2008-10-10 06:14:16
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Compression during Xfer
From: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo AT wpkg DOT org>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:06:27 +0200
Sebastien Sans schrieb:
> Hello,
> 
> The compression system of the pool in BackupPc is great, it save a lot
> of place, but I didn't found how to compress the tranfers in order to
> save my bandwidth.
> I tryed to modify the command line in "rzync" and "tar" modes to
> activate compression (i added -z options to use gz compression), the
> transfer was shorter but the result was'nt well recognized by
> BackupPc.
> I'm sure there is a simple way to compress the tranferts. If someone
> has the solution, that would be great.

Unfortunately, BackupPC does not support any sort of "transfer compression".

The best you can do is:
- do rsync transfers over SSH - SSH provides compression
- use VPN with compression, i.e. OpenVPN


-- 
Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org


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