# Backup command to use gzip's --rsyncable option

**URL:** <https://community.influxdata.com/t/backup-command-to-use-gzips-rsyncable-option/12053>\
**Category:** Store\
**Tags:** backup\
**Created:** [November 25, 2019, 8:12am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/backup-command-to-use-gzips-rsyncable-option/12053 "2019-11-25T08:12:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![maggie](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/maggie/32/3935_2.png) [@maggie](https://community.influxdata.com/u/maggie)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2019, 8:12am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/backup-command-to-use-gzips-rsyncable-option/12053/1 "2019-11-25T08:12:32Z")

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Hi all,

i am using the backup command and duplicati to store my backups. Duplicati has a nice data deduplication method which currently doesn’t seem to be used much on influx backup. I assume that the tar.gz file creation is the root cause.

Is it possible to pass the --rsyncable flag to gzip during the backup process of influx?

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**Author:** ![dilby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@dilby](https://community.influxdata.com/u/dilby)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2022, 3:23pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/backup-command-to-use-gzips-rsyncable-option/12053/2 "2022-01-27T15:23:04Z")

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+1 for this. I had posted a question related to this recently and see the benifit of using the --rsycnable flag.

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**Author:** ![maggie](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/maggie/32/3935_2.png) [@maggie](https://community.influxdata.com/u/maggie)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2023, 6:13pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/backup-command-to-use-gzips-rsyncable-option/12053/3 "2023-08-06T18:13:37Z")

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I think this needs to be addressed in another place. I dont think the request will really popup from this small thread 🙂