X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DNS_FROM_OPENWHOIS,FORGED_YAHOO_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS,WHOIS_MYPRIVREG X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <21435784.post@talk.nabble.com> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 05:30:40 -0800 (PST) From: jedalaurin To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: file mirroring In-Reply-To: <20090113131143.GA28581@tomas> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 References: <21430068 DOT post AT talk DOT nabble DOT com> <496C4011 DOT 6020003 AT cygwin DOT com> <21430861 DOT post AT talk DOT nabble DOT com> <20090113131143 DOT GA28581 AT tomas> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id n0DDVPKA027120 Tomas Zerolo wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFJbJMPBcgs9XrR2kYRAvqcAKCCTaMzvXKdVn8o83LM/I+IPpCBtACfVle5 > e89wcK/3eV7TFrL5wHarV9Q= > =whxm > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > > server_A: Red hat server_B: Window 2003 (cygwin) i was on server_B running this command: ssh -i /root/rsync/mirror-rsync-key someuser AT server_A:/var/www/ /var/www/ all files on server_A to be transferred on server_B /var/www/ I got this error: Connection closed by server_A 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] I've already setup ssh on cygwin http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/~kscully/CygwinSSHD_W2K3.html. may I ask the alternative that you have the "other way 'round." for our option. Thanks in advance. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/file-mirroring-tp21430068p21435784.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/