> On Wed, 25 Mar 2020, Leroy Tennison wrote: > >> Since you state that using -z is almost always a bad idea, could you >> provide the rationale for that? I must be missing something. > > I can't speak to that, but the obvious workaround is to use ssh's > compression instead of rsync's: > > rsync -av -e 'ssh -C' remotehost:remote.file local.file >From what I understand that's not really the same as having compression inside rsync makes rsync transfers even better than only compressing the transport. Thanks, Simon