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scp without replacing existing files in the destination

How do I copy an entire directory into a directory of the same name without replacing the content in the destination directory? (instead, I would like to add to the contents of the destination folder) ...
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Give user permissions to all files and folders

I want to have a user who has access to all the files and folders on the system. This is for the purpose of using RSYNC on a local machine to backup a remote machine. At the moment we are using the ...
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Is there ever a reason to use scp instead of rsync?

Is there a reason to use scp instead of rsync? I can see no reason for using scp ever again, rsync does everything that scp does, with more safety (can preserve symlinks etc).
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How can I send single file to multiple remote sites at the same time?

Can scp be used to send a single file to multiple remote servers at the same time? If so, how? If not, what's the alternative?
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1answer
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Reusing ssh session for repeated rsync commands [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Using an already established SSH channel I have a remote server accessible via a chain of SSH proxies. The resulting channel is wide and fast enough, but setting it up ...
4
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1answer
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Only use mtime comparison with rsync?

Is it possible to sync files via rsync and let rsync only compare mtime informations? Or is there another tool for this job? That means that such a tool only copies src to destination if the src is ...
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Can't share an ssh connection with rsync

In my .ssh/config file I have the following: Host xxx User yyy HostName zzzz ControlMaster auto ControlPath ~/.ssh/%r@%h:%p This works great for multiplexing my ssh connections (i.e. login once, ...
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from a sparse file to a block device over the network

If I have a sparse file representing a block device, then how can I efficiently restore the file over a network? Ideally, I'd use rsync -S host:file /dev/sdb, but rsync won't write to block devices. ...
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Any ideas to simplify the awkward rsync expression below?

Here is expression: rsync -avz --progress -e "ssh -i /where/is/my/id_dsa" [email protected]:`ssh -i /where/is/my/id_dsa [email protected] "find /remote/source/dir -type f -name '*.sql' | sort -nr | head ...
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Why do I get an “rsync: failed to set times on … : Operation not permitted (1)” error on Ubuntu 10.10 with SME Server 7.4?

I am trying to cron an rsync via ssh between two fileservers that are running SME Server 7.4 and Ubuntu 10.10, respectively. The first rsync worked just fine (for reasons that I do not know), but now, ...
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light weight disk based backup solution

Currently I am using Dirvish to backup a handful remote machines, both Linux and Windows to local disks. But Dirvish hasn't seen any updates for many years and it has a couple of small annoyances ...
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3answers
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rsync server/daemon security

I have a NAS (Netgear Readynas NV+) at home and a linux (Arch) box at work that is always on. The linux box is already running an ssh server/daemon and the NAS is already running an rsync ...
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How do I backup via rsync to a remote machine, preserving permissions and ownership?

Drive A is 2TB in a closet at home. Drive B is 2TB in my office at work. I'd like drive A to be the one I use regularly and to have rsync mirror A to B nightly/weekly. The problem I have with this ...
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1answer
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ssh/scp works but rsync just constantly says “no”

Hi I have a windows 2003 server that I need to back up onto a linux client so I install cygwin on the Win2k3. On the Win2k3 I have enabled ssh, scp but (because the Win2k3 server uses an customised ...
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2answers
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rsync via ssh from linux to windows sbs 2003 protocol mismatch

I am trying to backup my linux webserver to our local windows sbs 2003 server in the office. I have set up ssh and cwrsync on the windows server and have confirmed that the linux server can reach the ...
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1answer
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Cron: My crontabs don't seem to be doing anything at all

I think I'm missing something. I've set up some crontabs to handle rsyncs over ssh in my office to handle some backups, but they don't seem to be running OR logging, for that matter. Am I missing ...
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1answer
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Why does rsync look for DSA instead of RSA key when run from cron job?

I want to backup files from a server to my local computer using rsync. I can only log-in to the server with an RSA ssh key. I have stored the passphrase to the key in Seahorse Passwords and Keys, ...
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1answer
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rsync to SFTP while moving completed uploads to another folder

I'm going to be moving a lot of data (30GB) to a server which is split up into multiple 200MB tar.gz files. This is going to take time, and I'm going to need to stop and start my computer again during ...
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1answer
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Asking rsync to transfer files without connecting to the remote rsync server?

If I understand correctly, rsync tries to connect to a remote rsync server when transferring files via -e ssh. This worked well for me most of the time, but I am having problems rsyncing with a ...
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ssh: “Error reading response length from authentication socket”

I have a Makefile with some ssh and rsync commands. All of them are executed correctly, but give the following error message: Error reading response length from authentication socket. I don't like ...
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1answer
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How do I escape a dot character for an rsync command? [closed]

I'm trying to do... ssh -av -e [email protected]:/var/www/domain.com /Users/user/workspace/domain But it's outputting this (I presume because of the period character): OpenSSH_5.6p1, OpenSSL ...
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Using rsync without adding ssh user [duplicate]

How to give an user access to rsync (as www-data user), without giving him an ssh user (because i afraid that he could do something with my computer), how can i do this?
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Open alternative to crashplan friends

Is there a native linux alternative to "crashplan friends" http://support.crashplan.com/doku.php/getting_started/back_up_to_a_friend? The concept is that files are syncronized (backuped) to remote ...