restart rsync process via shell script

[Noah]

Hi there,

I am trying to figure out the most accurate way to assess if an rsync 
process is running and is established to the remote rsync server and is 
transferring data.  I am writing a bourne shell script to restart rsync 
if the connection to the remote rsync server is lost.

The command "ps ax | grep 'rsync' | grep -v grep"  is not enough because 
the rsync and ssh process can be running but the connection to the 
remote server is no longer ESTABLISHED and the backup is no longer 
proceeding.

Then perhaps the command "netstat -A | grep '192.168.1.10' | grep 
'ESTABLISHED' | grep -v grep" would be helpful.  But in some cases I 
have found that I have ssh connections to the remote rsync server that 
obfuscate the rsync ssh ESTABLISH statistics.

the rsync command I am using is: "/usr/bin/rsync -avz '/Users/noah/' -e 
'ssh -p 22' root at 192.168.1.10:/Users"

Any suggestions please?

Cheers,

Noah