how to reduce rsync system usage

[Joost van den Broek]

No daemon required when using ssh. So you would specify the following:
sshuser at remotehost:/path/to/webserver /path/to/bak/
(the --rsh parameter you specified is afaik correct)

- Joost

On Friday 27 May 2005 07:27, dtra wrote:
> sorry, you're prolly tired of me by now
> when i try this, it says unable to find rsyncd.conf
> nice -n 19 rsync -a --rsh="ssh -l remoteuser -c blowfish"
> rsyncuser at example.com::rsync_module/files /path/to/bak/
>
> my rsyncd.conf file on the remote host looks like this
> motd file = /etc/rsyncd.motd
> log file = /var/log/rsyncd.log
> pid file = /var/run/rsyncd.pid
> lock file = /var/run/rsync.lock
>
> [rsync_module]
>    path = /path/to/web/server
>    comment = My Very Own Rsync Server
>    uid = nobody
>    gid = nobody
>    read only = no
>    list = yes
>    auth users = rsyncuser
>    secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.scrt
>    hosts allow = rsync.client.com
>    max connections = 1
>
> thanks
> dave