15.3 Compression


15.3 Compression

Many administrators always use -z in conjunction with -a to compress the data before transmission:

 rsync -az  dir host  :  destination_dir  

Compression can improve performance in certain situations. For example, if you are uploading a large amount of data across a slow connection (such as the slow upstream link on many DSL connections), or if the latency between the two hosts is high, it helps. However, across a fast 100 Mb/s local area network, the two endpoints can spend more time compressing and decompressing data than the network takes transmitting the uncompressed files.




How Linux Works
How Linux Works: What Every Superuser Should Know
ISBN: 1593270356
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 189
Authors: Brian Ward

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