Please fix your mailer. The text contains garbage
characters. Also, don't indent the start of paragraphs.
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 12:18:52AM +0000, Abhilash Vantaram
wrote:>
> Hi all,
> I am very new to the rsync world (as well as the linux world) and have
> some really basic doubts. Please bear with me.
> I installed RH 9 on two systems in the same network and Rsync 2.5.5 was
> automatically installed with it. When I executed the command ?rsync ?avz
> test.txt /backupdir/ ?, it backed up the file test.txt into
> backupdir/test.txt. But when I tried the command ?rsync ?avz test.txt
> system2::home/? , it gave me the following:
> ?system2 connection refused.
> Rsync: connection unexpectedly closed.
> Rsync error: error in protocol data stream(code 12) at
> IO.c(150)?
> System2 has a fully qualified domain name.
> Could anyone please tell me if I have to start the Rsync server and if yes,
> how to do it.
> Thank you,
> AV
You don't have an rsync service running.
Take your time reading the manpage section about the eight
different ways of using rsync. Anything i said here would
just be duplicating that document.
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