Re: [gentoo-user] rsync via ssh

[Ralph Slooten <axllent@gmail.com>]

I have done a similar thing at work, except what I do is first create an 
ssh tunnel, then rsync to the locally listening port. Works perfectly. 
In my setup the remote server is running an SSH server which is not 
accessible directly. Maybe this will help you.


#!/bin/bash
SSL_COMMAND="ssh -p 2222 sshuser@myserver -f -N -L 8000:localhost:873"
SSL_PID=`ps aux | grep "$SSL_COMMAND" | egrep -v 'grep' | awk '{print $2}'`

if [ "$SSL_PID" == "" ]; then
         echo "=> Creating SSH tunnel to myserver"
         $SSL_COMMAND
         SSL_PID=`ps aux | grep "$SSL_COMMAND" | egrep -v 'grep' | awk 
'{print $2}'`
else
         echo "=> SSH tunnel already exists. Using existing tunnel."
fi

if [ "$SSL_PID" != "" ]; then
         echo "=> Connecting through SSH tunnel with PID $SSL_PID"
         rsync rsync://localhost:8000/wwwroot 
/mnt/samba/hotcopy/myserver/wwwroot \
         -rvtzp --delete --modify-window=1

         echo "=> Closing SSH tunnel"
         kill $SSL_PID
else
         echo "ERROR: SSH Connection failed! The backup could not complete"
fi



Cheers,
Ralph

Roger Mason wrote:
> Hi Richard,
> 
> Richard Ruth <richgentoo@pacbell.net> writes:
> 
>> Try adding "-e ssh" to your rsync command.
>> Search for "-e" in the rsync man page for an example.
>> =======================
>> This is the crontab entry (in rmason's crontab):
>> 0,15,30,45 * * * *      rmason /usr/bin/rsync -av /home/rmason backup_machine:my
>> machine_rmason
> 
> Thanks for the reply.  Unfortunately that did not work, the same error
> ocurs.  
> 
> This is what I have currently:
> 0,15,30,45 * * * *	/usr/bin/rsync -av -e "ssh" /home/rmason rmason@backup_machine:mymachine_rmason
> 
> I've tried with and without the quotes plus with and without the
> rmason@ but none worked.
> 
> I think I'll try scp and see what happens.
> 
> Cheers,
> Roger
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