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[Aaron Kulkis <akulkis00@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Carlos E. R. wrote:
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> The Monday 2007-12-31 at 13:24 -0000, Dave Howorth wrote:
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> > On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 03:26 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> > > But I believe plain dar is. I found it to slow, though. I wish rsync 
> > > could
> > > do a little compresion...
> >
> > ???
> >
> > $man rsync
> > ...
> > The rsync remote-update protocol allows rsync to transfer just the
> > differences between two sets of files across the network connection
> > ...
> > -z, --compress              compress file data during the transfer
> > ...
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> I know that, but that's not what I want. I want compressed storage.

Compressed storage is great and all, right up until your
media has one more erroneous bits in a block than the
error-detecting-and-correcting code can correct.

In uncompressed data, it's an headache.
In compressed data, it's practically unrecoverable



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