rsync - Apr 2003 - rsync over ssh question

Hello,

I'm trying to make rsync work over ssh. I've read several possibilities
how
to do this, but I haven't succeeded so far. Here's what I want to
accomplish
:

Internet server <==== SSH Tunnel over the Internet ==> Firewall
<-----rsync ----> Backup server
(rsync & SSH client)                                 (SSH server)
(rsync daemon)

In plain text :
- I want to set-up a SSH tunnel over the Internet to connect to a firewall
onto which an SSH daemon is running
- Through the SSH tunnel I want to send rsync traffic to a backup server,
sitting behind the firewall and running
  rsync in daemon mode


Here is the command I tried to use :
rsync -e "ssh -p 1142 -l sshuser [firewallip] -" -av --progress
--delete -z
./ rsyncuser@[backupserverip]:testdir

This gives me a bash error on "-" after I successfully logged on to
the ssh
server. I verified that the rsync daemon is running correctly. No firewall
rules are blocking rsync traffic from the firewall to the backup server.

Can somebody provide me the correct syntax?

Thanks in advance!

Bart.

On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Bart Boelaert bart.boelaert-at-pandora.be |Rsync List|
wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to make rsync work over ssh. I've read several
possibilities how
> to do this, but I haven't succeeded so far. Here's what I want to
accomplish
... trimmed ...
> Here is the command I tried to use :
> rsync -e "ssh -p 1142 -l sshuser [firewallip] -" -av --progress
--delete -z
> ./ rsyncuser@[backupserverip]:testdir
Bart:

The problem is that rsync does not seem to handle options on its
"rsh" command properly.  Lots of commands that use ssh seem to have
this
problem, so my workaround is to create a small shell script
("ssh_1142.sh") which contains the command and options you want to
use,
then call rsync like:

rsync -e /path/to/ssh_1142.sh -av --progress --delete -z ./
   rsyncuser@[backupserverip]:testdir

This solves those nasty execvp() failed problems.

  -- Steve