Thanks for the quick help! Joe D. Trent Bigham Brothers, Inc. Lubbock, Texas Toll Free (U.S.): (800) 692-4449 (806) 745-0384 jtrent@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx www.bighambrothers.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Diehl" <tdiehl@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 1:28 PM Subject: Re: Rsync > On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, Joe D. Trent wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I have RH 8.0 loaded on a machine to be used as an emergency backup. It's on > > the local network and I can access it through telnet, ftp, and http. I'm > > trying to get rsync to work so that I can sync the files on some interval > > from our main accounting machine. I've gone into services and enabled rsync, > > but after restart I don't see rsyncd listed from a 'ps auwx'. I've tried > > enabling some things I thought might be related like nfs, rlogin, and samba. > > Also don't have a /etc/rsyncd.conf file. > > > > Am I doing something wrong? > > Maybe maybe not!! First you do not _need_ rsyncd running on either machine > for what you are trying to do. You can do it that way but you do not need to. > IOW it is harder. All you need is rsync installed on both machines and either > a working rsh, or ssh on BOTH machines. If you have ssh and rsync on both > machines the easiest thing to do is: > # rsync -av -e ssh source_machine:/path/to/the/data/ /destination > > The other thing you can do is setup nfs and autofs and that will allow you > to do: > # rsync -av /path/to/the/data/ /destination. Either of these work > which one you choose depends entirely on what you are comfortable with. > > Note the trailing / on the source path. It is important. Make sure you put > it there or rsync will not do what you expect (most likely). man rsync for more > info. > > HTH, > > -- > .............Tom "Nothing would please me more than being able to > tdiehl@xxxxxxxxxxxx hire ten programmers and deluge the hobby market > with good software." -- Bill Gates 1976 > > We are still waiting .... > > > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list > -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
