Hey Jim Rsync uses ssh as its default shell. No need for -e ssh. You'd be well advised to create or to use a non-root user on either end. At the risk of sounding crass, man rsync will yield great information. Andrew wrote a great man page that has examples and descriptions.
I use Pavuz when syncing - P for progress, a to archive, v to be verbose, u to update, and z to compress the traffic. Assuming you want to create incremental backups, rsyncing as a non-root user to directories, such as Mon, Tues, Wed, Thur, Fri, Sat, Sun, Month, Year, will create an archive of data which you can become root to restore, if needed. Enjoy --scott On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 4:07 AM, James Handsel <jhand...@lava.net> wrote: > > _______________________________________________ > >> 1. RSync help (James Handsel) >> 2. Re: RSync help (Brian Chee) >> 3. Re: RSync help (Clifton Royston) >> 4. Re: RSync help (Vince Hoang) >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > > Brian, Clifton & Vince . . . > > Thanks for your responses. I'm running rsync thru an ssh tunnel, > connecting as root, initiating from the remote server. but for some reason > the rsync session seems to be running as "nobody" on the office server. > > Bear with me for a day or two and I'll post everything. > > Thanks again . . . Jim > > _______________________________________________ > LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list > > http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org > _______________________________________________ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org