Re: file mirroring

[jedalaurin <neonflux386@yahoo.com>]

Tomas Zerolo wrote:
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> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:48:51PM -0800, jedalaurin wrote:
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>> rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far)
>> [receiver]
>> rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at
>> /home/lapo/packaging/rsync-3.0.4-1/src/rsync-3.0.4/io.c(632)
>> [receiver=3.0.4]
>> 
>> after running 
>> 
>> rsync -avz --delete --exclude=**/stats --exclude=**/error
>> --exclude=**/files/pictures -e "ssh -i /root/rsync/mirror-rsync-key"
>> someuser@server1.example.com:/var/www/ /var/www/
> 
> As Larry said, this probably isn't Cygwin-specific. Rsync can be also
> had as a pure Windows app, AFAIK.
> 
>> our mirror server is using windows 2003 r3 on cygwin 2.573.2.3 and out
>> main
>> server is on Red Hat.
> 
> What machine are you invoking rsync on? (let's call it "B"). The "other"
> machine (let's call it "A") should have an SSH server running (since you
> are using SSH as the rsync "transport", as the option -e "ssh..." says).
> Can you ssh from B to A? What happens if you invoke
> 
>   ssh -i /root/rsync/mirror-rsync-key
> someuser@server1.example.com:/var/www/ /var/www/
> 
> (My crystal ball tells me that B is the Redhat box, just based on the path
> /root/blah, but that's just a hunch. This seems to be the hard way,
> since it seems to be more work to set up a ssh server on a Windows box).
> 
>> Another question is there another way(s) to do the file synchronization
>> on
>> this setup?
> 
> Rsync is very nice and light on resources. Maybe you can skip the need
> to have Cygwin using PuTTY as the SSH client on the windows box
> (provided you rsync "from" the Windows box "to" the Redhat one). I don't
> know what is needed to set up an SSH server on Windows (other than the
> Cygwin one, that is) if you want to do it the other way 'round.
> 
> HTH
> - -- tomás
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Btw, but 2 servers are both remote and was located on different countries
thats why I am using what i had now.

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