rsync via tunnel - 3 boxes separated by internet

[Wayne Davison]

On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 02:33:15PM -0500, Jay Strauss wrote:
> BoxA --internet-- BoxB (accessable only by ssh) -- BoxC

What about this?

    rsync -av --rsync-path="ssh BoxC rsync" BoxB:/source/ /dest/

This command looks like it is copying a file from BoxB, but the remote
command run on BoxB to start rsync really contacts BoxC and runs the
remote rsync there, so "/source/" is coming from BoxC.

..wayne..