To do

rsync without ssh and user account login
create cron script
digest http://rsync.samba.org/examples.html
On WD etc/rsyncd.conf, why is path = /shares/rsync/foo ignored (not working)?. Instead the dest path is specified on the command line.

Enable rsync daemon on Nassua

SSH into the server as root:

 ssh root@192.168.1.105
 password: welc0me

On the server, create the /etc/rsync.conf and put this in it:

 motd file = /etc/rsyncd.motd                                                    
 log file = /var/log/rsyncd.log                                                  
 pid file = /var/run/rsyncd.pid                                                  
 lock file = /var/run/rsync.lock                                                 
	                                                                                
 [mypath]                                                              
 path = /DataVolume/rsync                                                        
 comment = My Very Own Rsync Server                                              
 uid = nobody                                                                    
 gid = nobody                                                                    
 read only = no                                                                  
 list = yes                                                                      
 auth users = username                                                           
 secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.scrt    

Start the daemon. Must be root.
```
 rsync --daemon
```

See the log:

```
more /var/log/rsyncd.log 
2010/03/18 22:51:51 [15499] rsyncd version 3.0.2 starting, listening on port 873
```

Create a user account named “rsync” with password “rsync” on the WD. In finder, had to connect to “Nassau” as user “rsync” in order to see sub folders in “rsync” account.
```
 /usr/bin/rsync
```

Running

From the client, run rsync:

 $ rsync --verbose --progress --stats --recursive --times --perms --delete /usr/home/greg/docs/ rsync@192.168.1.105:/DataVolume/rsync
 The authenticity of host '192.168.1.105 (192.168.1.105)' can't be established.
 DSA key fingerprint is 0b:f4:6f:10:49:0f:e0:4d:9a:6f:29:e3:20:b7:fe:3f.
 Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
 Warning: Permanently added '192.168.1.105' (DSA) to the list of known hosts.
 rsync@192.168.1.105's password: 
 sending incremental file list
 ./
 rsync: failed to set times on "/DataVolume/rsync/.": Operation not permitted (1)
 deleting Temporary Items/.AppleDouble/.Parent
 deleting Temporary Items/.AppleDouble/
 ...
 apache.txt
         1872 100%    0.00kB/s    0:00:00 (xfer#3, to-check=163/167)
 ...
 Number of files: 167
 Number of files transferred: 164
 Total file size: 6080863 bytes
 Total transferred file size: 6080863 bytes
 Literal data: 6080863 bytes
 Matched data: 0 bytes
 File list size: 2426
 File list generation time: 0.034 seconds
 File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds
 Total bytes sent: 6090921
 Total bytes received: 3139

 sent 6090921 bytes  received 3139 bytes  176639.42 bytes/sec
 total size is 6080863  speedup is 1.00
 rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(1031) [sender=3.0.2]

Verify on Nassau

 $ cd /DataVolume/rsync/
 $ ls -al apache.txt 
 -rwxrwxrwx    1 rsync    jewab        1872 Jan 23 22:14 apache.txt

Display rsync version

/etc # rsync --version
rsync  version 3.0.2  protocol version 30
Copyright (C) 1996-2008 by Andrew Tridgell, Wayne Davison, and others.
Web site: http://rsync.samba.org/
Capabilities:
    64-bit files, 64-bit inums, 32-bit timestamps, 64-bit long ints,
    no socketpairs, hardlinks, symlinks, IPv6, batchfiles, inplace,
    append, no ACLs, xattrs, iconv, symtimes

rsync comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.  This is free software, and you
are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.  See the GNU
General Public Licence for details.

Install rsync

tar xvf rsync-3.0.2.tar 
cd rsync-3.0.2
./configure
make
make install
source .tcshrc
$ which rsync
/usr/local/bin/rsync

Just run the command ‘rsync’ and confirm…

Launching the Rsync Daemon on Server

vi /etc/services

then add this line:

rsync           873/tcp

vi /etc/inetd.conf

then add this line:

rsync   stream  tcp     nowait  root   /usr/bin/rsync rsyncd --daemon

Resources

https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/src/ http://rsync.samba.org/examples.html http://rsync.samba.org/ http://everythinglinux.org/rsync/

http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/cmd/cmd.csp?path=r/rsync

rsync $args –password-file=/usr/rsync-3.0.2/rsync-pass –verbose –progress –stats –recursive –times –perms –delete /usr/home/greg/docs/ rsync@192.168.1.105:/DataVolume/rsync

user@rsynchost::/share localdirectory

rsync –verbose –progress –stats –recursive –times –perms –delete /usr/home/greg/docs/ 192.168.1.105:/DataVolume/rsync