So I just came across AlmaLinux’s Rsync Backport YUM repo at Mirrors | AlmaLinux Wiki and was wondering any reason why it’s not listed along with our AlmaLinux provided repositories at Repositories | AlmaLinux Wiki ?
curl http://repo.almalinux.org/backports/almalinux-backports-rsync.repo --output /etc/yum.repos.d/almalinux-backports-rsync.repo
yum -y update rsync
cat /etc/yum.repos.d/almalinux-backports-rsync.repo
# almalinux-backports-rsync.repo
[backports-rsync]
name=AlmaLinux $releasever Backports - rsync
baseurl=http://repo.almalinux.org/backports/$releasever/$basearch/rsync/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-AlmaLinux
file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-AlmaLinux-9
Any reason why this Rsync backport repo won’t work on Rocky Linux OS too? 
This Rsync backport repo would save me time having to maintain my own Rsync 3.2.3 RPMs https://community.centminmod.com/threads/custom-rsync-3-2-3-rpm-builds-with-xxhash-zstd-support-for-centos-7.20768/
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It should work fine on Rocky. I’d say the repo is semi-maintained - I keep an eye on rsync versions and I’ll update it should anything security/bug-wise come out for what’s there. I mostly packaged that to help mirrors out a little bit. Context: rsync 3.2 w/xxhash Now Usable rsync.repo.almalinux.org - Mirror-announce - AlmaLinux List Archives
Building this was actually because I follow your performance graphs and xxhash was a nice improvement in some areas so thanks for the work you do!
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Sweet. Yup xxhash speed up is nice. So glad my benchmarks for rsync 3.2.3 were useful
Next up may be newer tar versions https://community.centminmod.com/threads/custom-tar-archiver-rpm-build-with-facebook-zstd-compression-support.16243/ 
For me on AlmaLinux 8/9 and CentOS 7
tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.35
Copyright (C) 2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.
tar --help | grep 'zstd'
--zstd filter the archive through zstd
Looks like AlmaLinux 8 gets tar 1.30 without zstd support while AlmaLinux 9 gets tar 1.34 with zstd support
I might could be convinced to add that too 
I’ll read over your data in a bit.
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Seems Rsync 3.3.0 is now out NEWS for rsync
Just to update you I haven’t forgotten about this
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@jonathan guess you changed something for rsync repo ?
yum list elrepo-release
Warning: failed loading '/etc/yum.repos.d/almalinux-backports-rsync.repo', skipping.
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:04 ago on Tue Jun 25 05:55:01 2024.
Available Packages
elrepo-release.noarch 9.1-1.el9.elrepo extras
cat /etc/yum.repos.d/almalinux-backports-rsync.repo
<html>
<head><title>301 Moved Permanently</title></head>
<body>
<center><h1>301 Moved Permanently</h1></center>
<hr><center>cloudflare</center>
</body>
</html>
edit: ah HTTP to HTTPS redirect!
