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Asked by wgnesbit

I'm trying to determine if I can connect to a Netware server using rsync from my Ubuntu server. The ultimate goal is to copy or pull-down the contents of VOL1 and VOL2 from the Netware server to the Ubuntu server for continuity of operations and disaster recovery purposes.

I can use rsync on the Ubuntu server to copy files from one directory to another, but I can't seem to communicate with my Netware server, and I don't know the proper syntax for the rsync to take place.

Any information you can share would be helpful.

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Steven Danna (ssd7) said : 		#1

Detailed information about rsync's syntax can be found by running "man rsync" on the command line. From the documentation it seems that they syntax to pull from a remote host is as follows

rsync [OPTION...] [USER@]HOST:SRC... [DEST]

For example, on my local machine if I wanted to pull the directory /home/user/backup from my server that was located at 192.168.0.1 and put it in my current directory I would do the following

rsync -a user@192.168.0.1:/home/user/backup ./

All the options given will be specific to your situation. As the manpage states, this assumes that there is a remote-shell program such as ssh or rsh operating on the remote machine. If there isn't such a program running on it, you can use set up the rsync deamon on the remote machine. Your best bet for further information is to read through the man page.

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Steven Danna (ssd7) said : 		#2

Detailed information about rsync's syntax can be found by running "man rsync" on the command line. From the documentation it seems that they syntax to pull from a remote host is as follows

rsync [OPTION...] [USER@]HOST:SRC... [DEST]

For example, on my local machine if I wanted to pull the directory /home/user/backup from my server that was located at 192.168.0.1 and put it in my current directory I would do the following

rsync -a user@192.168.0.1:/home/user/backup ./

All the options given will be specific to your situation. As the manpage states, this assumes that there is a remote-shell program such as ssh or rsh operating on the remote machine. If there isn't such a program running on it, you can use set up the rsync deamon on the remote machine. Your best bet for further information is to read through the man page.

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