On Apr 12, 2009, at 7:48 PM, H.S. wrote:
Hal Vaughan wrote:
On Apr 12, 2009, at 12:20 PM, H.S. wrote:
Hal Vaughan wrote:
I'm trying to use rsync to back up from one computer to another.
Recently I had used NIS so all my systems had the same user on
them so
there was never a permission issue. Now I'm trying to back up
from my
iMac to my Debian server. I can't put the iMac on NIS (or probably
could, but it would NOT be fun to set up, I'm sure).
In the past I could use:
rsync -av server::Writing /data/Writing
And all my writing would be backed up from the local /data/
writing to
the server. Now that I'm not using NIS, I use:
rsync -av m...@server::Writing /data/Writing
I use rsync through SSH without any problems. If you have SSH server
running on the remote machine, try:
$> rsync -ave ssh m...@server:Writing /data/Writing
where "me" is your username at server machine.
I missed something here. When I do this, it connects and instead of
using the module I specify, it copies the files to my home (or "me's"
home) directory on that computer.
The above command should copy files from ${HOME}/Writing (without a
path, a directory is assume to be in the starting folder, your home)
from the remote machine to /data/Writing on the machine you are
running
this command on. If you want to get another path, specify that after
m...@server:
I did several tests and that's what I verified. There is a way to
specify it differently, using "-rsa," but in the long run I decided it
was better to just specify the path instead, using "../.." to get to
the root directory. Using just a slash at the start of the path still
seemed to start with the home directory. The modules would be nice in
this case, since I could end up changing the path at some time, but
for now it works okay.
Thanks for the help!
Hal
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