rsync between gateway and workstation

Johan johansche at absamail.co.za
Wed Mar 3 19:51:15 GMT 2004


Hi Jim,
Now it is working.
I had all correct but... --rsh="/usr/bin/ssh"...no mention in my docs of this.
I just added this and there she goes.
Thanks
Johan
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On Wednesday 03 March 2004 20:50, Jim Salter wrote:
> Assuming you have sshd up and running on the remote box, and a user
> named "backup" which can log in interactively, you could do something
> like the following:
>
> rsync -av --rsh="/usr/bin/ssh"
> backup at remote.host.machine.address:/path/to/stuff
>
> Note that many *nix distributions / ssh installations (quite properly)
> do not allow direct remote root login over ssh.
>
> -J
<<  snip >>
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Johan
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