On Saturday 01 Oct 2005 06:35, Gil Hardwick wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am a complete newbie to rsync. Last year I built and setup my own web > server based on an old Intel PII box running at 333Mhz. There is plenty of > RAM and HD space, but the site is now growing apace. > > A few weeks ago while upgrading my office equipment I set aside another box > running an AMD Athlon at 1.1GHz. Still plenty of RAM and drive space. > > Both systems are setup us as servers running Fedora Core 3. I am happy with > their performance but need to know how I can mirror the first server onto > the second using rsync. > > I do not seem to be able to find any rsync folder or rsyncd.conf file > on either, and > have no idea where to start beyond reading the man pages. > > The service is a non-profit educational repository promoting history > and local talent. > > Any help would be gratefully received. > > Kind regards, > > Gil
Another way is to set up ssh with keys and run rsync over that. see man ssh-keygen on how to generate keys. If you do this as root, place the public part (id_rsa.pub) on the receiving server (B) in /root/.ssh/authorized_keys, permissions 700 for /root/.ssh and 600 for authorized_keys. Test that it works with ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Then you can mirror from anywhere on A to anywhere on B without passwords, without loss of security, through an encrypted tunnel, and no rsync config files. from A: rsync -a -v -e ssh /home/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home rsync -a -v -e ssh /var/log/httpd/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/log/httpd and so on note the *single* colon. the -a gives you archive mode, which will retain all your uid/gid, permissions and datestamps. If your /etc/passwd file on B uses the same uid/gid as on A it will all fall into place. HTH -- ----------------- Bob Hutchinson Midwales dot com ----------------- -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
