I need help using rsync over ssh on Windows. I have installed cwrsync server with openssh on a Windows XP machine. I then installed cwrsync client on a Windows SBS 2003 machine.
I would like to backup C:\backup\ on the SBS2003 server over ssh to C:\remote_backup on the XP machine.
I have setup the system as described in this document : http://www.smallnetbuilder
I can connect to the remote XP machine using ssh, but when I try to run the following rsync command via command prompt on the Windows SBS 2003 server I get an error.
rsync -avzr -e "C:\Progra~1\cwRsync\bin\s
rsync: on remote machine: --iconv=.: unknown option
rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at main.c(1318) [server=2.6.9]
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [receiver]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(609) [receive
r=3.0.0pre10]
I know too little about rsync to get this working. Please help.
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okay, I added "charset = utf-8" to the rsyncd.conf.
That got me from one error message to the next.
rsync -avzr "C:\Progra~1\cwRsync\bin\s
All source args must come from the same machine.
rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at main.c(1247) [receiver=3.0.0pre10]
If there is a better solution for rsync over ssh on Windows I am willing to try it. Just remember I am a beginner with rsync.
Thanks.
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by: brakk0Posted on 2008-07-01 at 14:53:00ID: 21911934
See if this helps:
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Or this:
http://www.nabble.com/The-
Short answer (quoted from links):
"It looks like the cwRsync binary was created with a default --iconv
option enabled (this is possible via a configure option). From the
other messages I saw, it appears that the default is "--iconv=." (which
is rsync's cryptic way of saying "use default charset on both sides").
As others have noted, setting a "charset = FOO" on the daemon side (in
the rsyncd.conf) enables the allowing of clients that use --iconv. Or,
you can manually turn off the default iconv-action for a single transfer
via --no-iconv to the client rsync.
You can also override a compiled-in default for all your commands by
exporting the RSYNC_ICONV environment variable; e.g. set it to "-" to
disable iconv by default. "