Re: question about why rsync log doesn't include remot ip or remote host

2011-11-24 Thread Wayne Davison
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Chris Adams wrote: > I would like to include the IP and/or hostname of the machine being > backed up > Since you are initiating the transfer of a remote machine, you can put whatever you like into your log string option as literal characters or an $ENVVAR (which

Re: question about why rsync log doesn't include remot ip or remote host

2011-11-22 Thread Kevin Korb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Those variables only apply to connections to an rsyncd service. Since you are using ssh for the networking rsync doesn't really have that information. Also, since you are pulling backups rather than pushing them if you switched to rsyncd instead of s

question about why rsync log doesn't include remot ip or remote host

2011-11-22 Thread Chris Adams
Hello all, This is my first post to this mailing list. I have been using rsync for a bit and have it mostly working the way I want. I have a backup server that I run all scripts from. It rsyncs data from four different Linux servers via cron. A sample of a script is here: rsync -avz --log-form