topic Re: rsync problem in Operating System - Linux

rsync problem

NiCK_76 — Sat, 23 Oct 2004 00:05:18 GMT

I wanna copy some files from suse8.2 box to sles9 box by rsync,but it was not work,error message blow:
Connection timed out
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes read so far)
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(342)

how to solve it?

Re: rsync problem

Steven E. Protter — Sat, 23 Oct 2004 20:02:32 GMT

May I suggest openssh.

scp command.

Attaching a document that works very nicely for exchanging public keys enabling password free copying of files between Linux and/or HP-UX systems.

Ignore the X-Windows instructions, the cat command will do just fine as a substitute. Also, the instructions on directory permissions are critical.

openssh works well and is secure.

SEP

Re: rsync problem

Vitaly Karasik_1 — Sun, 24 Oct 2004 05:00:55 GMT

1) does it work locally on sles9 ?
2) do you have DNS resolution between these hosts?

Re: rsync problem

NiCK_76 — Sun, 24 Oct 2004 20:56:10 GMT

hi ,Steven E Protter ,thank you for your advice.
I used scp to transmit files before post the thread. SCP can't transmit some important information ,such as permission and owner .use rsync -og can do it.How can I?

Re: rsync problem

Paul Cross_1 — Mon, 25 Oct 2004 09:33:57 GMT

rsync needs rsh and .rhosts entries. This means the rsh and rsh-server need to be installed on respective machines and configured to allow rlogins.

Re: rsync problem

Bojan Nemec — Mon, 25 Oct 2004 09:50:09 GMT

Nick,

I use tar in combination with ssh. There are the examples:

To copy to remote

tar -c YOUR_FILES | ssh REMOTE "cd DIR; tar -xv"

To copy from remote

ssh REMOTE "cd DIR; tar -c YOUR_FILES" | tar -xv

The command is similar to create a tar, copy it to the remote node and extract files, but in this case the tar file is not created. You can omitt the cd DIR if the files resides on your login directory.

Bojan

Re: rsync problem

James A. Donovan — Mon, 25 Oct 2004 13:38:36 GMT

What is the exact command you are trying to run?
What is the version of rsync on each box?

There are known issues with specific versions. The latest, greatest version is 2.6.3 and can be downloaded from http://rsync.samba.org

Re: rsync problem

NiCK_76 — Mon, 25 Oct 2004 22:11:28 GMT

Thank you for everybody.
both box rsync version is 2.6.2 protocol version 28.
nick@www:~> rsync -avzog ppbase/ nick@221.137.12.115:/srv/rsync/ppbase/
Connection timed out
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes read so far)
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(342)

I'll install a new suse8.2 box to have a try .

Re: rsync problem

John Pretti — Tue, 26 Oct 2004 10:41:02 GMT

Have you tried utilizing rsync over ssh? You can accomplish this by a command similar to the following:

rsync /some/file -ave ssh servername:/some/other/dir

Please note you can pass any other rsync options as well. From the error indicated above, it appears that you do not have rsync installed on the target system.

Hope this helps,
John

Re: rsync problem

NiCK_76 — Tue, 26 Oct 2004 11:45:51 GMT

hi John Pretti, thank you!
I can use rsync over ssh.It worked.

thank you for everyone!

Re: rsync problem

NiCK_76 — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 09:40:17 GMT

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