On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 19:34, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings; > > I've been running a script with a bunch of rsync stuffs in it to > backup the important pieces of my firewall box for years. But I'm > getting ready to nuke this flakey FC1 upgrade and install FC2 fresh, > so I thought it would be nice to have a backup of /etc/, /root, > and /home on another 60Gb drive that isn't normally mounted here > other than useing the last 4Gb of it for swap. > > But, I can't get past my own non-existant firewall it seems as I'm > getting this error for each rsync invocation line in this new file: > ---------------- > [root@coyote bin]# ./backup-me-nightly > connect to address 192.168.71.3: Connection refused > Trying krb4 rsh... > connect to address 192.168.71.3: Connection refused > trying normal rsh (/usr/bin/rsh) > coyote.coyote.den: Connection refused > rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes read so far) > rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at > io.c(165) > ---------------- > 192.168.71.3 is this box, whose FQDN is coyote.coyote.den. > > Here is the first rsync line from this file, attempting to copy > my /etc dir to a temporarily mounted partition which when the script > is done, is unmounted for safety: > ---------------- > rsync -avz --delete --password-file=/etc/rsync/coyote.elladene \ > root@xxxxxxxxxxxx:etc/ /mnt/hdb3/etc Try the above with root@xxxxxxxxxxxx::etc/ ^ Note the Double "::"
