Questions with rsync

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 19:22 -0700, gmspro wrote:
> --- On Sat, 6/6/09, Mail Lists <lists at sapience.com> wrote:
> 
> > From: Mail Lists <lists at sapience.com>
> > Subject: Re: Questions with rsync
> > To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> > Cc: "GMS S" <gmspro at yahoo.com>
> > Date: Saturday, June 6, 2009, 6:18 AM
> > On 06/04/2009 06:28 AM, Steven Stern
> > wrote:
> > > On 06/04/2009 12:53 AM, GMS S wrote:
> > >> mv backup.8 backup.9
> > >> mv backup.7 backup.8
> > >> mv backup.6 backup.7
> > 
> > 
> >   Have you tried rdiff-backup ? It will do all this
> > for you ... and its
> > as easy to use as rsync alone.
> 
> Do rsync and rdiff-backup have the option of compression.
> I think they just copy the files.
> Is it possible to backup 20GB partition into 8GB or below 8GB using rsync or rdiff-backup?

Why don't you try reading the manual? Most of the questions you're
asking here are clearly documented if you only take the trouble to
check. Sure, some stuff is not adequately documented and some docs may
even have errors, but asking if rsync does compression is so basic that
I have to wonder if you're making even a minimal effort to find things
out for yourself before blasting off another question and expecting
someone else to do the work for you.

poc