On Saturday 23 Jul 2005 13:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi there, > > I set up my company's back up server using rsync. > And I've got a strange problem. I searched in the archives of this > list, but > none of them seems not giving me an idea to solve the problem. > If anyone can help, it would be grateful. > > I'm using cron by a user (non wheel/admin) to rsync everyday during > the night. > The cron is set in the server to transfer the backing-up directories > to a remote server. > > My shell script is as follows. > > I make up the proper command by the script. The user is authenticated > by RSA non password. > The problem is, > I can run successfully with the command, which was produced by the > script, from the command line. > But if I run this script from cron or run this script on command > line, link_stat error occurs. > The directory /home/auser/ is the current directory when the command > is run. > How can I get rid of that? > I tried "::" instead of single colon. > I don't use rsyncd.conf file, because I think it runs as non daemon > process. > > This is a single command for back-up: > rsync -auzv -e ssh --delete --exclude=".*" --exclude="~*" > /work/data my.remote.domain:/ftproot/friday >> friday.log
try [EMAIL PROTECTED] and cd /home/auser or put the full path in, if it isn't already > > Any comment would be appreciated. > A. Uchida > > Error message: > > rsync: link_stat "/home/auser/my.remote.domain:/ftproot/friday" > > failed: No such file or directory (2) > > rsync: link_stat "/home/auser/>>" failed: No such file or directory > > (2) > > done > > ERROR: destination must be a directory when copying more than 1 file > > rsync error: errors selecting input/output files, dirs (code 3) at > > main.c(412) > > rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (8 bytes received so far) > > [sender] > > rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c > > (434) > > my script; > > > #!/bin/sh > > > > bDir="/work/data" > > rSvr="my.remote.domain" > > rDir="/ftproot/" > > attr="-auzv -e ssh --delete --exclude=\".*\" --exclude=\"~*\"" > > > > case `date +%a` in > > Mon) > > tDay="sunday" > > yDay="saturday";; > > Tue) > > tDay="monday" > > yDay="friday";; > > Wed) > > tDay="tuesday" > > yDay="monday";; > > Thu) > > tDay="wednesday" > > yDay="tuesday";; > > Fri) > > tDay="thursday" > > yDay="wednesday";; > > Sat) > > tDay="friday" > > yDay="thursday";; > > Sun) > > tDay="saturday" > > yDay="friday";; > > esac > > > > sufx=">> $tDay.log" > > #command="rsync $attr $bDir $rSvr:$rDir$tDay $sufx 2>&1" > > > > echo `date` > $tDay.log > > > > if test $tDay != "saturday" && test $tDay != "sunday"; then > > rsync $attr $bDir $rSvr:$rDir$tDay $sufx > > else > > echo not on duty in a weekend >> $tDay.log > > fi > > > > echo `date` >> $tDay.log -- ----------------- Bob Hutchinson Midwales dot com ----------------- -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
