 | | | backing up with rsync | backing up with rsync 2003-05-03 - By Rodolfo J. Paiz
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At 14:15 5/3/2003 +0200, you wrote:
>what services must run on a machine
>which I wan 't to backup with rsync tunneling
>through ssh?
Only OpenSSH.
>Do I need rsyncd running on this machine?
No.
>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.
Can 't help you there, I only use Red Hat.
>Maybe there 's a problem with different ssh versions?
Maybe...
>I use the following:
>
>rsync -avz -e ssh user@(protected):/path/to/backup/* /backup/
I use exactly the same command (sometimes without the z) and it works very
well; no changes necessary. I don 't see a lot of benefits in compression,
since my LAN is 100Mbps and has only five workstations. So I don 't use it.
But it shouldn 't cause you any problems, and the few times I 've used it
there have been no problems.
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Rodolfo J. Paiz
rpaiz@(protected)
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