Compress

compress outbound wraps an upstream outbound and compresses the content of each entry before writing.

To compress an entire archive instead, use the compression field of the Archive outbound.

Structure

{
  "type": "compress",
  "tag": "compress-out",
  "algorithm": "gzip",
  "level": 6,
  "outbound": "archive-out"
}

Fields

algorithm

Required

The compression algorithm.

Algorithm	Description
gzip	DEFLATE with gzip framing
zstd	Zstandard
lz4	LZ4

level

Compression level, from 1 to 9.

6 is used by default.

outbound

Required

The tag of the upstream outbound.