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kramer2718
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 24 Mar 2006
Posts: 78
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 Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 4:29 am Post subject: What are rsync modules? |
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Hi. Maybe I'm just stupid, but I can't use rsync and the man page is a bit cryptic.
From "man rsync"
| Quote: | CONNECTING TO AN RSYNC SERVER OVER A REMOTE SHELL PROGRAM
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In order to distinguish between the remote-shell user and the rsync
server user, you can use '-l user' on your remote-shell command:
rsync -av --rsh="ssh -l ssh-user" rsync-user@host::module[/path]
local-path
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What the heck is "module"?
I started an rsync daemon on my box via:
| Code: | | /etc/init.d/rsyncd start |
I thought that's all I would have to do, but according to the man page:
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rsync somehost.mydomain.com::
This would list all the anonymous rsync modules available on the host
somehost.mydomain.com. (See the following section for more details.)
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When I do that I get no output, so I guess that I need to install these missing "modules" that the man page does not explain.
Any help?
Thanks, guys.
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systerfrida
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Joined: 01 Jun 2004
Posts: 10
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
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| Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 1:36 pm Post subject: |
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Modules are like shortcuts, or aliases, for paths that you want to rsync with. They're defined in /etc/rsyncd.conf. You can use rsync without defining any modules too, just specify the path instead:
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rsync user@host:/path/to/files /path/to/sync/to
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If you defined a new module in /etc/rsyncd.conf like so:
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# Example module
[my-rsync-module]
path = /path/to/files
comment = My rsync Module
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then
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rsync user@host::my-rsync-module /path/to/sync/to
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would do the same as the first rsync-command. |
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