Talk:Rsync

I am sure I installed rsync when on firmware 3.1.29 STABLE

With firmware version 4.2.7 Beta I get the following:-

 / # ipkg update
 Downloading http://www.xs4all.nl/~rmc/fsg/feed/Packages.gz
 Inflating http://www.xs4all.nl/~rmc/fsg/feed/Packages.gz
 Updated list of available packages in /usr/lib/ipkg/lists/rmc-fsg
 Successfully terminated.
 
 / # ipkg install rsync
 Nothing to be done
 An error ocurred, return value: 4.
 Collected errors:
 Cannot find package rsync.
 Check the spelling or perhaps run 'ipkg update'

The List_of_Compatible_ipkgs shows many more available ipkgs than I get when listing with 'ipkg list'.

I guess there is a different set of packages available for different firmware versions, or more likely kernel versions, is that so? If so should we create a separate list for the 4.x firmware?

Dan Ellis 23:25, 5 October 2007 (CEST)

ipkg feed

I have the following feed (for V4 firmware) configured and as you see rsync is there

 cat /etc/ipkg.conf

src/gz cross http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/fsg3v4/cross/stable

 ipkg list rsync

rsync - 2.6.9-4 - fast remote file copy program (like rcp)

rsync path

Finally, using 4.3.8 Beta, I have rsync working. It is synchronizing across the network from the FSG to my Ubuntu desktop. The backup is initiated from Ubuntu.

However at first it failed with:-

 sh: rsync: not found
 rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [receiver]
 rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(454) [receiver=2.6.9]

It turns out that rsync will look for the remote rsync binary at either /bin or /usr/bin. I logged into the fsg via ssh and determined where rsync was located with:

 ~ $ which rsync
 /opt/bin/rsync

So this was fixed by adding the following to the command:

 --rsync-path=/opt/bin/rsync

The command line I finally used looked something like this:

 rsync -auvz --rsh=ssh --rsync-path=/opt/bin/rsync admin@fsg:/home/FolderX/* /media/sdb1/FsgBackup/

--Dan Ellis 10:04, 15 February 2008 (CET)