[Techtalk] Question and an apology

[octal at solon-ohio.com]

Kristina,

I apologize for sending this to your email addy instead of the list a
couple of minutes ago. Don't know where my mind was as I simply hit
reply and zipped it off. Sorry.

Is it actually transferring the files? The reason I ask is that the man
page for rsync states that the '--dry-run' option tells rsync to not
actually do any file transfers...

Perhaps I'm not understanding the problem correctly but from my
understanding if you kept the original command you were using and simply
added the '-e ssh local/path' to enable a ssh transfer, rsync would do a
"simulated" transfer only. Have you checked to make sure the files are
really at their intended destination?

Again, apologies all around if I'm simply having one of my more obtuse
days... 

cheers.
octal

"k.clair" wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 11:06:19AM +1100, Jenn Vesperman wrote:
> - On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 04:18, k.clair wrote:
> - > is anyone out there familiar with rsync? i sent this message to the
> - > rsync list and have yet to get a response...
> - > -
> - > - rsync -vr --numeric-ids --dry-run / rsync.host.com::lvs_server_v1
> -
> - I use rsync, but not in such a complicated way.
> -
> - My usual rsync is somethin like rsync -e ssh local/path
> - host:/remote/path.
> -
> - That's adequate for me, to copy things.
> 
> Huh! So it must have been a problem with the protocol because i added -e
> ssh to my command above, and now it works.
> 
> (I still don't understand why it doesn't work without the -e option,
> though...)
> 
> Thanks for all the input.
> 
> kristina
> 
> ### my gpg key can be found here:
> http://www.klerp.net/gpgkey
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