If you have your source and target on single host: sudo rsync ..... Should definitely work, because in that situation, it does not use ssh for transport.
Tomas On Sun, Oct 20, 2019, 13:20 Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 20 Oct 2019, Galen Seitz wrote: > > > Rather than using rsync, why not this: > > > > login to your backup system > > sudo to root > > tar up the directory you want to move, putting the tar file in /tmp > > chown the tar file to rshepard > > Galen, > > When the external hard drive is mounted I have always been able to copy > files (even directories) from it to the desktop. I can try that because > it's > mounted on the same host as the destination directory. > > I have used cp in the past to restore missing files but I don't want to > lose > what's currenly in the INBOX (which alpine uses for the contents of > /var/spool/mail/rshepard). I thought that cp would overwrite the contents > of > the existing directory because my mail uses mbox where all messages are in > a > single file. > > > FYI rsync does not require the use of ssh. It's just common to use it. > > Ah so. > > Thanks, > > Rich > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
