On saturday may 3rd, Jochen Kchelin wrotäe: > what services must run on a machine > which I wan't to backup with rsync tunneling > through ssh? Do I need rsyncd running on this machine? > When I backup my RedHats everything works fine but > when I try to backup a SuSE 7.2 I get an error! > Something like "...bytes do not match...."! > I have no access to this machine at the moment so I > can't remember the error message in detail. > > Maybe there's a problem with different ssh versions? > > I use the following: > > rsync -avz -e ssh user@xxxx:/path/to/backup/* /backup/ There are 2 ways to use rsync. The one you suggest is perfetcly ok. I prefer the equivalent writing: rsync -avz --rsh=ssh user@xxxx:/path/to/backup/* /backup/ Some suggestions would be: 1) always make a check before rsyncing, usin the -n option rsync -avzn --rsh=ssh user@xxxx:/path/to/backup/* /backup/ 2) learn the difference between the last / in the "from" part: rsync -avz --rsh=ssh src:/backup dest:/backup/ will rsync the directory backup as a directory, with everything it contains; in this example, you would result with dest:/backup/backup/... in the "to" dir. rsync -avz --rsh=ssh src:/backup/ dest:/backup/ will rsync all the content of src:/backup but not the directory itself; the result would be dest:/backup/... rsync -avz --rsh=ssh src:/backup/* dest:/backup/ will rsync part of the content of src:/backup (the files starting with a . will not be rsynced). You don't need any rsyncd for these commands. The rsync server is used while using "::" instead of ":" and refer to the /etc/rsyncd.conf file on the corresponding server. But that's another story. But all that does not explain what happens when you try to rsync from a SuSE system. If you are sure of your command line, you might have a problem with ssh. You should first check that you can ssh to user@xxxxx The sshd should run on the SuSE computer. Anne
