On Apr 12, 2009, at 12:20 PM, H.S. wrote:
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 myiMac 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/WritingI 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.
Okay, that did the trick! I'm kicking myself because once I saw that, I searched the man page for "colon" and found it -- up at the top, in the "general" section, the part I skipped while looking for some obscure command line option that I was sure would do the trick! It seems the more obvious or basic something is, the more likely I am to miss it and start searching for the wrong thing.
Thanks! Hal