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@@ -87,6 +87,16 @@ Do not create an rdiff-backup-data directory or make any increments.
In this mode rdiff-backup is similar to rsync (but usually
slower).
.TP
+.B --no-compression
+Disable the default gzip compression of most of the .snapshot and .diff
+increment files stored in the rdiff-backup-data directory. A backup
+volume can contain compressed and uncompressed increments, so using
+this option inconsistently is fine.
+.TP
+.B "--no-compression-regexp " regexp
+Do not compress increments based on files whose filenames match regexp on a case-insensitive basis. The default is
+".*\\.(gz|z|bz|bz2|tgz|zip|rpm|deb|mp3|ogg|avi|wmv|mpeg|mpg|rm|mov)$"
+.TP
.BI --no-hard-links
Don't preserve hard links from source to mirror directories.
Otherwise, no increment files will themselves be hard linked, but a