> > Yep, I was about to post the same but forgot. Not as exclusive
choice of
> > course but as option.
>
> Right. Not exclusive! ftp or at least http works about everywhere
thru
> every firewall. But rsync? Yes, at home I use rsync whenever
possible
> - but at work I wouldn't be able to use rsync, thanks to the firewall.
>
1. runsocks rsync ...
needs SOCKS proxy of course
2. export RSYNC_PROXY=<your-http-proxy>:<proxy-port>
as long as proxy does not block CONNECT to non-437 ports (which is
paranoid) it works like a charm. How do you think I use rsync? :-)
-andrej
