[ale] rsync + ssh + cron

Jim Popovitch jimpop at yahoo.com
Tue May 23 13:17:05 EDT 2006


Nathan J. Underwood wrote:
> The error that I'm getting (figured that may be handy) when I try to run 
> it is:
> 
> /usr/bin/rsync -av -e 'ssh -p 2201' /home/nathan/source/ 
> nathan at lint-1:/home/nathan/destination --progress --stats --compress 
> --delete
> Missing trailing-' in remote-shell command.
> rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at main.c(335) [sender=2.6.8]
> [nathan at linux-fs2 scripts]$

Try this line:

/usr/bin/rsync -av -e "ssh -p 2201" --delete --compress
       /home/nathan/source/ nathan at lint-1:/home/nathan/destination/


hth,

-Jim P.



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