On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic <office at plnet.rs> wrote: > On 01/31/2012 09:47 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> No, I'm trying to have rsync make an outbound connection over ssh from >> the rescue environment and getting what looks like an argument error >> from ssh. Ssh itself works and I can connect to the same target if I >> run it directly, and the exact same rsync command lines work from a >> normal host. Either rsync isn't setting up the remote command right, >> or ssh isn't allowing it and giving a bad error message. > > How about something like > > tar cvf - . | gzip -c -1 | ssh user at host cat ">" remotefile.gz > > to get the filesystem across the ssh? I'm going the other direction (originating the command from the rescue host), but yes, tar works over ssh, and and ssh works by itself. The part that doesn't work is ssh when invoked by rsync, either by default or with an explicit '-essh' argument, and the error message looks like an ssh argument error so it doesn't even prompt for the password. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com