[rdiff-backup-users] Compression of latest backup (mirrored files)

[thfl]

Hi,

I was playing around with rdiff-backup on OSX and I'm considering to use it for 
some local backups (instead of duplicity), especially because of the xattr 
support. But there is one thing that bothers me: 

By default rdiff-backup stores the latest backup (the "mirrored" files) as 
uncompressed files and thus is really wasting a lot of space. 
Is there any way to activate file compression for the latest backup? (The 
previous incremental backups are also stored compressed.)

I guess there must be an option for this, as it is not very useful to store a 
backup without compression. (IMO this would only make sense in case of true 
bidirectional sync (but rdiff-backup apparently is not made for this) or other 
special use cases.)

Thanks for any hint.

Best wishes
Tom