On Sunday 17 February 2013 03:39:18 Baho Utot wrote: > Do you have ssh installed on both machines? > > If you do, you don't need to run rsyncd if you have sshd configured and > running on the target machine. > > Just rsync -var <ip | host.domain>:<source directory> <target directory> > should then work. > > rsync spawns ssh to make the connection and then it run over the "ssh > tunnel"
Thanks very much. I somehow could not login via ssh on the machine I want to transfer from so I had to turn things round. i..e transferred from the said machine whilst on it :- rsync -avz sourceDIR user@DestIP:/destDIR and it worked so many thanks. sincerely luxInteg -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
