On Wed 30 Jan 2008, Chris A Harris wrote: > > I will wait for a Debian package and extract the file; I do > not have enough experience to compile from source.
You can download an rsync .deb via http://packages.debian.org/rsync (be sure to select the correct distribution). You can then extract the contents of the package with: dpkg-deb --extract rsync*.deb destdir/ destdir/usr/bin/rsync will then be the executable you want. Note that you may run into problems with additional shared libraries that rsync needs, e.g. libacl1, libpopt0; if they're not already installed, you need to download those as well and get creative with $LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Have you asked your hoster whether he is willing to install rsync? I'm surprised, actually, that rsync isn't already installed. I wonder how he makes his backups. (There are of course alternatives, but esp. for a hosting server rsync is very useful.) Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
