On 01/22/2010 01:26 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 21:12 +0100, DB wrote: > >> Evening All, >> >> After many trials& tribulations, I've finally got my laptop running F12 >> - got caught by the "yumex kernel upgrade" problem - still can't get ark >> to read consistently from my external disc -even after running cpu test >> for 2 days& memtest for 80 hours without error& getting a clean bill >> of health from palimpsest for the HDD, - so tried rsync& ssh& finally >> followed enough "how to"s to copy my /home from F11 to F12. Thanks to >> all for the many ideas of how to fix it! >> >> Now.... seeing how brilliant rsync is at updating my /home on the 2 >> machines, I thought it'd be a Good Idea to try and use it to keep a >> website I look after, up to date. Problem is - how do I specify the >> "receiver" address, when I only have an ftp access to the distant system >> (& I guess my chances of installing rsync on a provider's system is >> about as good as......) All the notes I read on the 'net seem to work >> with ip addresses, which I don't know how to find for my target... >> >> As ever, enormous thanks for any pointers& pushes in a "good" direction! > > > As Patrick O'Callaghan has pointed out, the target site must be running > an rsync daemon for you to connect with your rsync client. Fortunately > this is usually rather simple to determine: > > $ rsync rsync://ftp.target.site > > --or-- > > $ rsync rsync://rsync.target.site > > The actual DNS name of the rsync site may take some guessing, and you > can always use an absolute IP address if you now it. If there's an rsync > daemon running on that site, it should respond with the contents of > the /etc/rsyncd.conf file following the initialization section. Those > contents will guide you to wherever the folder(s)/file(s) may be that > you want to fetch. For example, here locally I can type: > > $ rsync rsync://lion > pub entire 1TB array > centos Centos 5.4 mirror > cygwin Cygwin mirror > f12 Fedora 12 General Release > f12_updates Fedora 12 Updates > rawhide Fedora Rawhide / Development > > To create or update a local mirror of the F12 Updates repository on my > rsync server "lion" I just type: > > $ rsync -acvxzHP --delete rsync://lion/pub/f12_updates/ /pub/fedora/linux/updates/12/ > > Hope this helps. If all the remote site gives you is ftp, you could use either a GUI- based FTP client locally (such as kasablanca [KDE] or gftp [GTK]) or a command-line batch FTP client (such as ncftp/ncftpput/ncftpget). rsync would be nice, but in a pinch......... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer ricks@xxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - If this is the first day of the rest of my life... - - I'm in BIG trouble! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
