Gsutil rsync but compress/decompress to Google Drive

Question

I need to transfer a ton of files from a local Linux folder to a Google Nearline bucket. Is there some options I can use with gsutil rsync function so that it will compress the files before transferring and then they will be uncompressed on the Google Drive once transferred.

Reason is, I still want to give users access to the files on the Google Drive Nearline bucket via a Samba share that points to the Google Storage FUSE setup on the Linux server connected to the bucket.

Answer 1

gsutil rsync doesn't currently support any kind of transcoding such as compression. Transcoding is not symmetric, so it would be difficult to ensure the behavior was always what the user expected.