Well, rsync is not ssh. These days most rsync clients default to ssh transport, but rsync itself is it's own protocol. I don't want to deal with ssh under cygwin, so I'm opting not to use it. Unfortunately, this is proving to be an issue.
I have the daemon (rsyncd) running on the windows host. I am then connecting from the backuppc server (linux machine) and running rsync as instructed in the windows howto. Since the writing of the backuppc Windows rsyncd howto, the rsync client has undergone some changes to a point where it now defaults to ssh on most linux platforms. As I showed in my examples, the rsync command works great from an OSX client, and in fact they're the same rsync version, 2.3.6. I know what rsync and rsyncd are. I don't know how to get a more recent version of rsync on a linux machine to talk nicely to the bundled rsyncd on the backuppc page. :) Thanks, Bill On Nov 9, 2007 4:00 PM, Gene Horodecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Someone correct me if I'm wrong here, but it sounds like maybe you're > confusing rsyncd and rsync. > > rsyncd will be governed to a certain extent by rsynd.conf and access the > shares accordingly. A rsyncd connection happens through a special rsyncd > port (I think 843 by default). The rsync connection will occur through > ssh, since that's what rsync tries by default. The rsync connection is > basically a normal scp (ssh copy) from the client with the benefit of only > copying altered portions of files. An rsync transfer method has nothing to > do with rsyncd.conf. > > When I set up rsync xfer on my linux boxes, I had to copy the public key > around so that rsync could work without a password, as opposed to setting > up a user/password in rsynd.conf on the client. > > Personally I prefer the rsync connection better because it is encrypted and > the key pairs are more secure then plain-text passwords on each side. But > that's probably just personal preference. > > > "Bill B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've been trying to figure out how to use the windows rsyncd package > > from the backuppc site. Everything is installed fine, and if I > > connect using rsync from my Mac laptop (OSX), rsync works as expected. > > If, however, I connect from a linux based machine, it tries to use > > ssh as the default transport and fails. OK, so I then specify > > everything to use just rsync, but now it is reporting that docs is an > > unknown module. (docs is defined in rsyncd.conf on the windows > > client) Has anyone ran into this, and know how to fix it? > > > > Examples: > > > >>From my OSX based laptop: > > > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) download > rsync -av [EMAIL PROTECTED]::docs . > > Password: > > receiving file list ... > > etc.. etc.. etc.. > > > > > >>From my linux machine: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] BackupPC]# rsync --port=873 [EMAIL PROTECTED]::docs . > > @ERROR: Unknown module 'docs' > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] BackupPC]# rsync -av rsync://[EMAIL PROTECTED]:873::docs . > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] BackupPC]# > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > > Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. > > Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. > > Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > > BackupPC-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
