On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 11:27 -0700, Tony Mantler wrote: > So I've got this situation where I have two systems connected via a
> protocol that looks nothing at all like IP, and I'd like to be able to
> rsync between them.
>
> I can, though, open a perfectly normal looking socket through various
> magic and trickery.
>
> I've managed to get rsync to work by using the "rsync
> --rsh=mymagictransportprogram" style invocation, but for a number of
> reasons this isn't really a viable long-term solution for me. What
I'd
> like to be able to do is either:
>
> A: Set up stdin/stdout and exec rsync with some options that tell it
> that there's a remote rsync on the other end of those FDs, or
? > Basically I need to set up the socket beforehand and then hand it to
> rsync somehow. This seems to be possible on the 'remote' end, but I
> haven't managed to figure out how to do on the initiation side.
First, you should use an rsync daemon if you aren't already; with the
remote shell mode, you have to get the server arguments across the
socket yourself, whereas the daemon protocol takes care of that.
There's an enhancement request for a ?"&3::module/src/" syntax
to make
the client access a daemon over a socket supplied on a fd:
?https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5220
In the absence of this enhancement, you can accomplish the same thing
using the RSYNC_CONNECT_PROG environment variable (or --rsh, but
RSYNC_CONNECT_PROG is slightly more convenient). Have the
RSYNC_CONNECT_PROG inherit the socket from rsync and bridge the socket
to its own stdin/stdout for use by rsync. Here's an example, assuming
the socket is already on fd 3 of the shell:
RSYNC_CONNECT_PROG='cat >&3 & cat <&3; wait' rsync -a
foo::module/src/ dest/
The hostname, here "foo", doesn't matter, since RSYNC_CONNECT_PROG
overrides it.
> B: Call rsync as a library, passing it a socket and directory(^Hies) to
> sync with. (librsync doesn't seem to be quite what I want)
Rsync doesn't come as a library. Librsync is perhaps misnamed: it
contains only rsync's delta-transfer algorithm for individual files.
Matt
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