On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 01:09:01PM -0600, John David Anderson wrote: > I'd like to set up my FC3 box to be a backup for my home folder on my > OS X machine. I've tried getting rsync to work, but I can't seem to > get it to go. Could someone point me in the right direction or show > me how to set this up? > > I like rsync because it can work over ssh, and because it will only > copy new changes - if there's a better solution, I'm very open to it. >
So are you just doing a backup of the home directory then (not trying to use the same home directory on both machines)? If so, this has worked for me: 1. Ensure that sshd is running on the FC3 box, and no firewall is blocking port 22. 2. On the OS X machine try this command: rsync -avz --delete -e "ssh -l username" $HOME/ remote_machine:/path/to/backups Please note the lack of a trailing slash on the remote_machine's backup directory. --delete should make sure if a file gets deleted on your apple, it'll get deleted in you backup. If that doesn't work, can you even ssh into your FC3 box? Hope this helps -- Scott Paul Robertson http://spr.mahonri5.net GnuPG FingerPrint: 09ab 64b5 edc0 903e 93ce edb9 3bcc f8fb dc5d 7601
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