>>>>> " " == Andrew Lenharth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What is better and easier is to ensure that the compression is > deturministic (gzip by default is not, bzip2 seems to be), so > that rsync can decompress, rsync, compress, and get the exact > file back on the other side. gzip encodes timestamps, which makes identical files seem to be different when compressed. Given the same file with the same timestamp, gzip should allways generate an equal file. Of cause that also depends on the options used. MfG Goswin