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Compress files during transfer. For images, media or any other already compressed files do not compress as you just slow things down.
Special Use
-W - -whole-file
Use this for first time sync if you have lots of files.
With this option the incremental rsync algorithm is not used and the whole file is sent as-is instead. The transfer may be faster if this option is used when the bandwidth between the source and destination machines is higher than the bandwidth to disk (especially when the "disk" is actually a networked filesystem). This is the default when both the source and destination are specified as local paths.
--inplace
This option is useful for transfer of large files with block-based changes or appended data, and also on systems that are disk bound, not network bound.
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