Hi, On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 17:10, Filipe Brandenburger<filbranden at gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 16:59, Stewart Williams<lists at pinkyboots.co.uk> wrote: >> command="rsync -avz -e "ssh -i ~/.ssh/backup-key" /backup >> stewart at name.of.remote.server:/backup" ssh-dss ... key ... > > You actually have to include the command that rsync will call on the > server side, not the command you use to call rsync on the client > side... If you add "-v" to the SSH command line on the client: $ rsync -avz -e "ssh -v -i ..." It will print something like this: debug1: Sending command: rsync --server -vlogDtprze.is . /backup That is the exact string you should add to command="" on the authorized_keys file on the other end. HTH, Filipe