-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Rsync does not communicate via smb. It either communicates to its own service (rsyncd) or to another rsync command over ssh (like scp does).
On 04/11/12 17:31, Chris Arnold wrote: > Forgive me if this has been addressed here before. We have a remote > office that we need to backup to our NAS. We have a site to site > certificate VPN. The remote site has over 51gb that needs to be > backed up to our NAS over that VPN. I have tried this command: > rsync --verbose --progress --stats --compress --recursive --times > --perms --links --delete /Share/* / > smb://192.168.123.6/Backup/EdensLandCorp > > and it just sits there and appears to do nothing. Does rsync make a > tarball first and then put it where it is told to put it or does it > just copy the files/folders over? Maybe it is the > smb://xx.xx.xx.xx/whatever that is breaking it......the bottom line > is i need to copy/rsync a directory to a remote server through a > VPN. How is this accomplished? - -- ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~ Kevin Korb Phone: (407) 252-6853 Systems Administrator Internet: FutureQuest, Inc. ke...@futurequest.net (work) Orlando, Florida k...@sanitarium.net (personal) Web page: http://www.sanitarium.net/ PGP public key available on web site. ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk+F+OQACgkQVKC1jlbQAQefiACcD8EPoeIiqzd2eDyWkgtsvoMW QYAAnAlYJaHJ17fdjGr+PU0OSmf3amEi =BNfJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html