[ale] rsync

[Jim Kinney]

You're correct. The compression will not benefit you. If you were moving a
directory structure with a mix of files, then it would be good as the size
increase for compressed files being re-compressed is hidden in the gains
from the compressible files.


On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Edward Holcroft <eholcroft at mkainc.com>wrote:

> I am rsyncing a many files, mostly photos from an EBS volume to an S3
> bucket (locally mounted using FUSE) on AWS.
>
> Given that it's primarily photographic data (jpg), is it still a good idea
> to use compression (z- option), or will I not gain any real benefit by
> trying to compress jpegs?
>
> Alternately, if anyone has a better way of getting 600GB of data from EBS
> to S3, please let me know.
>
> ed
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