On 5/11/2010 12:48 PM, Josh Malone wrote: > On Tue, 11 May 2010 12:35:27 -0500, Nick Bright<o...@valnet.net> wrote: > >> [backu...@backuppc tmp]$ /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root TargetServer >> /usr/bin/rsync --version >> rsync version 3.0.7 protocol version 30 >> Copyright (C) 1996-2009 by Andrew Tridgell, Wayne Davison, and others. >> Web site: http://rsync.samba.org/ >> Capabilities: >> 64-bit files, 64-bit inums, 32-bit timestamps, 64-bit long ints, >> socketpairs, hardlinks, symlinks, IPv6, batchfiles, inplace, >> append, ACLs, xattrs, iconv, no symtimes >> >> rsync comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you >> are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. See the GNU >> General Public Licence for details. >> >> I just checked the authorized_keys file, nothing out of the ordinary. >> Just the RSA key and comment. I'm sure that the problem is with the >> Target server's paranoia - I just can't *find* it. >> > Okay - the it's got to be something with the weird SSH port. Let's see if > you can make rsync do something on the target box. Try rsyncing from the > directory you want to back up into /tmp/test/ or something. This might tell > us if it's a messed up rsync or something on the remote box. > > If that works then try removing the port option on your rsync command. It > really should ne needed as rsync just sends the data stream over stdout... > I think. > > -Josh > > That's a good point. I really thought I was specifying that it should be using the alternative SSH port.
This is the root of the problem, I took the liberty of changing the SSHD port back to 22 and it's backing up. Search hits take note: this is why you have to be careful stripping "sensitive" information out of debugging posts! Thanks very much for taking the time to reply! - Nick ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/