On Apr 12, 2009, at 12:20 PM, H.S. wrote:
Hal Vaughan wrote:
I'm trying to use rsync to back up from one computer to another.
Recently I had used NIS so all my systems had the same user on them
so
there was never a permission issue. Now I'm trying to back up from
my
iMac to my Debian server. I can't put the iMac on NIS (or probably
could, but it would NOT be fun to set up, I'm sure).
In the past I could use:
rsync -av server::Writing /data/Writing
And all my writing would be backed up from the local /data/writing to
the server. Now that I'm not using NIS, I use:
rsync -av m...@server::Writing /data/Writing
I use rsync through SSH without any problems. If you have SSH server
running on the remote machine, try:
$> rsync -ave ssh m...@server:Writing /data/Writing
where "me" is your username at server machine.
Okay, that did the trick! I'm kicking myself because once I saw that,
I searched the man page for "colon" and found it -- up at the top, in
the "general" section, the part I skipped while looking for some
obscure command line option that I was sure would do the trick! It
seems the more obvious or basic something is, the more likely I am to
miss it and start searching for the wrong thing.
Thanks!
Hal
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