rsync - Oct 2003 - rsync -vae ssh user@host1:/tmp/dir user@host2:/tmp/

I have legitimate ssh access to two remote machines.  ssh directly
from either machine to the other is blocked by firewalls which I cannot
control.

$ rsync -vae ssh user@host1:/tmp/dir user@host2:/tmp/
receiving file list ... done
rsync: mkdir user@host2:/tmp: No such file or directory
rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at main.c(319)

I would like this to copy host1:/tmp/dir into host2:/tmp/.

Is there some way to do this that I'm missing ?  Without copying the
gigabytes of data to my local hard drive first before sending to the second
machine (which I'm currently doing) ?

(scp has a similar problem, but rsync is often more useful to me)

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>>>>> "DX" == Darxus  <Darxus@ChaosReigns.com>
writes:
    DX> I have legitimate ssh access to two remote machines.  ssh directly
    DX> from either machine to the other is blocked by firewalls which I
    DX> cannot control.

If you are able to make ssh connections from host1 to home then the method
outlined in

<http://www.mail-archive.com/rsync@lists.samba.org/msg08450.html>

will work to transfer from host1 to host2 via home without writing the
data to disk on home.

I notice that the archive copy has been blatted the command line given in
that message.  Here's the recipe assume that the usernames on all three
machines are identical:

host1$ rsync --rsh ssh --rsync-path 'ssh host2 rsync' srcfile
home:dstfile