backup complete server

[Jim Salter]

Remove the IP address you have stuck in front of the double-colon.

rsync -v 10.28.123.232::

That should provide you with a list of the modules you have set up on 
your rsync daemon on the server.  Except that it doesn't look like you 
have any defined.  Here's an example module definition:

[etc]
path = /etc
comment = system config files

or if you prefer to give any random rsync user access to everything on 
the entire server (NOT recommended, particularly if you do not set 
read-only or auth users / secrets):

[root]
path = /
comment = hope you know what you're doing

Hope that helps.

Jim Salter
JRS Systems


>I'm new to rsync, and am setting up two servers (Fedora Core 1) - one bing
>the "primary" and one the "backup".
>
>primary:  10.28.123.232
>backup:  10.28.123.230
>
>On the primary server, I have the following rsyncd.conf file:
>
>pid file = /var/run/rsync.pid
>path = /
>use chroot = false
>read only = true
>list = false
>uid = 0
>gid = 0
>hosts allow = 10.28.123.230
>
>>From the backup server, I try to run the following commands, but get errors:
>
>rsync -v 10.28.123.232::10.28.123.230
>rsync failed to connect to 10.28.123.232:  connection refused
>rsync error:  error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(83)
>
>I then tried (from the backup server) the following:
>
>rsync -v 10.28.123.232:10.28.123.230
>connecting to address 10.28.123.232: Connection refused
>trying krb4.rsh...
>connecting to address 10.28.123.232: Connection refused
>trying normal rsh (/usr/bin/rsh)
>10.28.123.232: Connection refused
>rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (o bytes read so far)
>rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 21) at IO.c (165)
>
>>From everything i've read, it should be correct, but still not working.  Can
>anyone please point out what I could be doing wrong?
>
>My goal is to have the backup server take a complete backup of the /etc and
>/home and /var directories every night, but want to get at least some files
>moving before I start specifying what "to" and "not to" move.
>
>Thanks,
>Scott
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