I ended up scrapping the whole thing and using somebody elses rsync command,
I'll paste in the command I'm using now that does work.
Also, this is on a Mac, with rsync version 2.6.3 protocol version 28
rsync -e 'ssh -i $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa -l root' -azxH --numeric-ids
--include-from=$HOME/.rsync/
Hi all,
I am using rsync 2.6.8 (compiled) between 2 solaris 9 systems. If I do
srv11$ rsync -av -e ssh --rsync-path=/usr/local/bin/rsync
srv10:/opt/httpd backuphttpd
Password ok , it is transferring ,than I got the messages
receiving file list .done
sent 20 bytes received 45950 bytes 1314