[TriLUG] rsync connections

Reginald Reed reginald at cisco.com
Sun Jan 4 17:15:32 EST 2004


If this is the direct command line you are using, its failing because you
probably don't have (and shouldn't generally) rsh enabled.  To use ssh, try
the following:

rsync -avze ssh /rtest poo:/rtest2

Once you get that going, then deal with ssh automatic ssh authentication.

--Reggie

trilug-bounces at trilug.org wrote:
> To answer both questions... to Chris, I can ssh between the
> machines.  They are both on my internal network, so I'm not
> going across a public network.  To Mark, I just don't even
> know which way to go.  The man page was a bit confusing to me
> about how the connections are made.  I guess I need to know
> how to get the connection.  Which is better, trust or ssh?
> which is easier?  I have about 20GB of data or less I'll be dealing
> with. 
> 
> thanks,
> David
> 
> --- Mark Fowle <mark at thefowles.com> wrote:
>> Are you doing this with "trust" between the machines or using ssh ?
>> 
>> Mark
>> 
>> On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 16:39, Turnpike Man wrote:
>>> I'm trying to setup rsync, having some connection troubles.
>>> Scenario: 
>>> 
>>> machine foo needs to rsync to machine poo.  (for backups of foo to
>>> poo).  I want to rsync /rtest on foo to /rtest2 on poo.  I tried
>>> this from foo: 
>>> 
>>> rsync -avz /rtest poo:/rtest2
>>> 
>>> Connection refused.
>>> 
>>> suggestios?  thanks.  after I get this working, I want to cron it
>>> for every
>> 6
>>> hours... and maybe also do my /home dir from foo to poo also.
>>> 
>>> thanks,
>>> David M.
>>> 
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