Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:11:43 +0100
From: tomas AT tuxteam DOT de
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Subject: Re: file mirroring
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On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:48:51PM -0800, jedalaurin wrote:

[...]

> rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [receiver]
> rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at
> /home/lapo/packaging/rsync-3.0.4-1/src/rsync-3.0.4/io.c(632)
> [receiver=3.0.4]
> 
> after running 
> 
> rsync -avz --delete --exclude=**/stats --exclude=**/error
> --exclude=**/files/pictures -e "ssh -i /root/rsync/mirror-rsync-key"
> someuser AT server1 DOT example DOT com:/var/www/ /var/www/

As Larry said, this probably isn't Cygwin-specific. Rsync can be also
had as a pure Windows app, AFAIK.

> our mirror server is using windows 2003 r3 on cygwin 2.573.2.3 and out main
> server is on Red Hat.

What machine are you invoking rsync on? (let's call it "B"). The "other"
machine (let's call it "A") should have an SSH server running (since you
are using SSH as the rsync "transport", as the option -e "ssh..." says).
Can you ssh from B to A? What happens if you invoke

  ssh -i /root/rsync/mirror-rsync-key someuser AT server1 DOT example DOT com:/var/www/ /var/www/

(My crystal ball tells me that B is the Redhat box, just based on the path
/root/blah, but that's just a hunch. This seems to be the hard way,
since it seems to be more work to set up a ssh server on a Windows box).

> Another question is there another way(s) to do the file synchronization on
> this setup?

Rsync is very nice and light on resources. Maybe you can skip the need
to have Cygwin using PuTTY as the SSH client on the windows box
(provided you rsync "from" the Windows box "to" the Redhat one). I don't
know what is needed to set up an SSH server on Windows (other than the
Cygwin one, that is) if you want to do it the other way 'round.

HTH
- -- tomás
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