In the last episode (Dec 13), Simon said:
> I have before I sent this email. And unless I misread it, -z is to
> compress on sending side to make rsync use less bandwidth in remote
> backups, not to compress data (on the fly) on the receiving (backup)
> end.
rsync is for synchronizing two directories, and needs to be able to
read the files on both sides for the sync algorithm to work. If you
just want to back directories up, use tar, and add the 'z' flag to
compress the tarball.
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