Unfortunately not directly. rsync requires a clean link with a shell that will allow it to start the remote copy of rsync, when run this way. If you have some way of running long-lived listening processes on the host you could try starting rsync manually listening for connections on a non-privileged port, but most techniques … Read more
rsync -v -e ssh [email protected]:/Library/WebServer/sites/staging/app1/ ./export You didn’t give it any options to put it into recursive mode like -r or -a. remote app1 directory is empty while local export directory has 4 sub directories and then a bunch of files in each of those Do you have the options backwards here? The command should … Read more
Use the -R or –relative option to preserve the full path.
One of your login scripts (.bashrc/.cshrc/etc.) is probably outputting data to the terminal (when it shouldn’t be). This is causing ssh to error when it is connecting and getting ready to copy as it starts receiving extra data it doesn’t expect. Remove output that is generated in the startup scripts. You can check if your … Read more
You are probably running rsync like this: rsync -a dir/ remote:/dir/ The -a option according to the documentation is equivalent to: -rlptgoD -a, –archive archive mode; equals -rlptgoD (no -H,-A,-X) You probably want to remove the -o and -g options: -o, –owner preserve owner (super-user only) -g, –group preserve group So instead your rsync command … Read more
If you don’t want another tests directory created, the correct command would be rsync -avzp –del -e “ssh -p myport” user@hostname:/var/www/tests/ /var/www/tests Note the / at the end of user@hostname:/var/www/tests/.
The -L flag to rsync will sync the contents of files or directories linked to, rather than the symbolic link.
I would say mostly because people in windows are unaware of it. Rsync is a command-line utility that is consistent with the unix philosophy of having lots of small tools preinstalled. The windows philosophy is based around GUI applications that are all downloaded and installed separately. There is not a smooth integration spot where rsync … Read more
Normally, rsync skips files when the files have identical sizes and times on the source and destination sides. This is a heuristic which is usually a good idea, as it prevents rsync from having to examine the contents of files that are very likely identical on the source and destination sides. –ignore-times tells rsync to … Read more
You don’t. rsync can’t do that for you, it is a protocol of its own and doesn’t work over FTP. You might, however, want to try csync. IIRC it provides rsync-like behaviour over HTTP. I can’t comment on whether it works over FTP, you’ll have to try it.