Salam,<br><br>Its a normal scenario, when u access machine B from machine A, any utility you<br>are using like ssh, rsync, or what machine B is acting as server for u.... so on client<br>side simple rsync is installed, on server side u have to use some rsync-server package is
<br>required.<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Uamir Shakil<br>ETD<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/29/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">ann kok</b> <<a href="mailto:annkok2001@yahoo.com">annkok2001@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi Les<br><br>I am trying to use rsync<br><br>1/ Are both machine to have rsync installed?
<br><br>2/ machine A#rsync -essh machineB:/ .<br>I try this command but what wrong I am<br><br>rsync -essh root@machineB:/ .<br>skipping directory /.<br>client: nothing to do: perhaps you need to specify<br>some filenames or the --recursive option?
<br><br>Thank you for your help<br><br>--- Les Mikesell <<a href="mailto:lesmikesell@gmail.com">lesmikesell@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> ann kok wrote:<br>> > can you tell me what is the exactly command?<br>
> ><br>> > machineA# ssh root@nachineB:tar cvf / ; tar xvf *<br>> ><br>><br>> You need a - after the f options to represent<br>> stdin/stdout and some<br>> appropriate quoting.<br>><br>> ssh
root@machineB 'tar cvf - /' |tar xvf -<br>><br>> (and you probably want to use --one-file-system or<br>> some excludes to<br>> avoid /proc and any NFS/cdrom mounts).<br>><br>> But, I'd recommend:
<br>> rsync -essh machineB:/ .<br>> instead (also per filesystem with --one-file-system)<br>> - especially if you<br>> want to repeat it or restart after interruption.<br>><br>> --<br>> Les Mikeselll
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