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Don't know of a solution that does this, but you could solve it with a two-step process. First, rsync the files to the server as-is, then use a background job on the server that converts lossless to lossy every hour or so.
Storage is really cheap these days though, why compress lossy in the first place?
You can compress to lossy and still don't make the difference between each while saving a ton of storage. Opus 192k is really good and mostly transparent.
I do agree that storage is cheap however if you have to make backups, it really gets satured very fast !