On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 03:23:19AM -0800, you [jw schultz] wrote: > On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 11:50:27AM +0100, Harald Fielker wrote: > > Hi, > > > > i am using Rsync for making backups of a MySQL database. The MySQL files can > > be compressed about 1:10 and i want to make use of this fact. > > > > Rsync currently doesn't support saving files in a compressed state. I > > personally think this should be a feature for the filesystem (in the sense of > > "synchronised files") but currently there is no such filesystem for Linux > > available. > > e2compr is not dead. See http://www.alizt.com/
Yep, and I've been using it for almost three years for backing up 20+ windows workstations onto a linux server with the rsync + cp -al hard link tree trick. Had great success so far. (That's a linux-2.2.x server - the e2compr 2.4 patch seemed shaky last I checked.) -- v -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
