Evening All, After many trials & tribulations, I've finally got my laptop running F12 - got caught by the "yumex kernel upgrade" problem - still can't get ark to read consistently from my external disc -even after running cpu test for 2 days & memtest for 80 hours without error & getting a clean bill of health from palimpsest for the HDD, - so tried rsync & ssh & finally followed enough "how to"s to copy my /home from F11 to F12. Thanks to all for the many ideas of how to fix it! Now.... seeing how brilliant rsync is at updating my /home on the 2 machines, I thought it'd be a Good Idea to try and use it to keep a website I look after, up to date. Problem is - how do I specify the "receiver" address, when I only have an ftp access to the distant system (& I guess my chances of installing rsync on a provider's system is about as good as......) All the notes I read on the 'net seem to work with ip addresses, which I don't know how to find for my target... As ever, enormous thanks for any pointers & pushes in a "good" direction!
As Patrick O'Callaghan has pointed out, the target site must be running an rsync daemon for you to connect with your rsync client. Fortunately this is usually rather simple to determine:
The actual DNS name of the rsync site may take some guessing, and you can always use an absolute IP address if you now it. If there's an rsync daemon running on that site, it should respond with the contents of the /etc/rsyncd.conf file following the initialization section. Those contents will guide you to wherever the folder(s)/file(s) may be that you want to fetch. For example, here locally I can type:$ rsync rsync://ftp.target.site--or--$ rsync rsync://rsync.target.site
To create or update a local mirror of the F12 Updates repository on my rsync server "lion" I just type:$ rsync rsync://lion pub entire 1TB array centos Centos 5.4 mirror cygwin Cygwin mirror f12 Fedora 12 General Release f12_updates Fedora 12 Updates rawhide Fedora Rawhide / Development
Hope this helps.$ rsync -acvxzHP --delete rsync://lion/pub/f12_updates/ /pub/fedora/linux/updates/12/
--Doc Savage
Fairview Heights, IL
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