Can you use a fuse mount to pretend that the tarball is a filesystem? Also, there is squashfs.
On 12/07/2016 12:59 PM, Ed Peschko wrote: > Mike, > > As it stands right now, we use xz for our compression, so if rsync had > a similar option for xz that would probably be an improvement. > > However, I think being able to decompress directly to the remote > system would save more; elsewise I don't see how I'm going to be able > to avoid untarring and uncompressing the whole xz file on the other > end. > > thanks much, > > ed > > On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 8:36 PM, Mike Hodson <myst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 8:07 PM, Ed Peschko <horo...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> All, >>> >>> I'm working in an environment *very* restricted by space, and need to >>> sync from that location to another location. >>> >>> So I'd like to be able to sync from a source that is not a filesystem, >>> like a compressed tarball. >>> >>> Is this possible with the --files-from argument (or some other such >>> argument)? >>> >> >> I'm curious if rsyncing the entire compressed tarball might work for you, if >> you compress the tarball with the gzip option of --rsyncable and then >> rsync with --inplace ? >> >> Mike > -- ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._., Kevin Korb Phone: (407) 252-6853 Systems Administrator Internet: FutureQuest, Inc. ke...@futurequest.net (work) Orlando, Florida k...@sanitarium.net (personal) Web page: http://www.sanitarium.net/ PGP public key available on web site. ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,
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