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A systems management toolkit for Linux
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How to change rsync option? #2242

Closed nerocide closed 6 years ago

nerocide commented 6 years ago

Hi,

during an full inspection, retreiving files from a destination host can take some time. It would be nice to use rsync's -z (compress) option.

I'm wondering if there is a way to change rsync behaviour in machinery. So far machinery config display very few options.

I wasn't able to find anything in the documentation as well. Please let me know if you have any hints.

Regards.

thardeck commented 6 years ago

Hi @nerocide,

we do not use rsync -z but we only use rsync for transferring changed managed und changed config files which are usually not that many and they are not that huge by average.

The big chunk comes from unmanaged-files which are compressed with gzip before transferring them through ssh so no additional compression is required.

There is no machinery option for the -z option but I think you could configure your ssh connections to use compression like this: https://askubuntu.com/questions/6770/does-ssh-use-any-compression

Although in my experience the ssh compression slows the connection usually more down, then gained by the compression unless your are transferring huge text files or have a very slow connection.