ZFS backups: retrieving a few files?

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy at acm.org> (from Wed, 24 Nov 2010  
06:32:07 +1100):

> BTW, the entire export is performed at the current compression level -
> recompressing existing data.

Are you sure the compression is done on the sending side, and not at  
the receiving side? I would expect the later (as I can specify a  
different compression level on an existing destination, if I remember  
correctly).

Bye,
Alexander.

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