Re: Rsync Permissions Issue

["H.S." <hs.samix@gmail.com>]

Hal Vaughan wrote:
> I'm trying to use rsync to back up from one computer to another. 
> Recently I had used NIS so all my systems had the same user on them so
> there was never a permission issue.  Now I'm trying to back up from my
> iMac to my Debian server.  I can't put the iMac on NIS (or probably
> could, but it would NOT be fun to set up, I'm sure).
> 
> In the past I could use:
> 
> rsync -av server::Writing /data/Writing
> 
> And all my writing would be backed up from the local /data/writing to
> the server.  Now that I'm not using NIS, I use:
> 
> rsync -av me@server::Writing /data/Writing

I use rsync through SSH without any problems. If you have SSH server
running on the remote machine, try:
$> rsync -ave ssh me@server:Writing /data/Writing

where "me" is your username at server machine.


Regards.




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