Dreamhost rsync setup

Works great! Hi Kevin, this is a bug between rsync server version 2. Using WinSCP 4. This may be an issue on their end. I have not tried since. BTW would you mind sharing you Deltacopy setup with me. I am trying to use backup. If I sftp to backup. What speeds are people getting? How to use Rsync with backup user? Does anyone have a backup script using rsync that you would be willing to share? Your help would be very much appreciated.

Thank you in advance, Kevin. This is great news! I just tried it with my usual syntax and it works. Glad its working for you. Next go to where the cwRsync program was installed and edit the file called cwrsync. If you are in windows vista, you might have to right click and run notepad as an administrator.

Anyways, append the line below to the cwrsync. The screenshot below is slightly different but you will get the idea.

You will have created two files, a private key file and public key file. Change this script below so that it is suited to your needs. Now rysnc should be working automatically without a password. Here is the command: you should see how to modify if your own use now but append this to the cwrsync.

Now to automate this backup so that it happens daily in windows — its pretty simple just take the script cwrsync. Open this folder and start a new task. Now, the trickiest part. To know the version of rsync , just write:. In my case, I have rsync version 3. After googling a little, I discovered that protocol 30 sends implicitly an -e command and the installed version in Dreamhost does not like that, because it uses protocol The solution is adding --protocol 29 to the rsync options.

Then, to make the whole process automatic, you need to avoid rsync asking for a password. That can be easily done following this instructions on passwordless ssh.

It will work like a charm. Then, create a script that does the rsync thing. In my case, I have this single instruction, but you can sync as many folders as you want. With this, I tell rsync to use archive mode -a , which is quite interesting as it preserves timestamps and is recursive, and to store partial information -P in case I break the connection.

Then I tell rsync to delete the destination files that are not in the source which can be dangerous if you delete something locally and want to recover it later, so I leave this option up to you.

Then to use protocol version 29 --protocol 29 as I discussed earlier. Finally, I tell rsync which is the source folder and the destination one, indicating the username and the host. If you store this command in a.