FC1, rsync problem to myself

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 19:34, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings;
> 
> I've been running a script with a bunch of rsync stuffs in it to 
> backup the important pieces of my firewall box for years.  But I'm 
> getting ready to nuke this flakey FC1 upgrade and install FC2 fresh, 
> so I thought it would be nice to have a backup of /etc/, /root, 
> and /home on another 60Gb drive that isn't normally mounted here 
> other than useing the last 4Gb of it for swap.
> 
> But, I can't get past my own non-existant firewall it seems as I'm 
> getting this error for each rsync invocation line in this new file:
> ----------------
> [root at coyote bin]# ./backup-me-nightly
> connect to address 192.168.71.3: Connection refused
> Trying krb4 rsh...
> connect to address 192.168.71.3: Connection refused
> trying normal rsh (/usr/bin/rsh)
> coyote.coyote.den: Connection refused
> rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes read so far)
> rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at 
> io.c(165)
> ----------------
> 192.168.71.3 is this box, whose FQDN is coyote.coyote.den.
> 
> Here is the first rsync line from this file, attempting to copy 
> my /etc dir to a temporarily mounted partition which when the script 
> is done, is unmounted for safety:
> ----------------
> rsync -avz --delete --password-file=/etc/rsync/coyote.elladene \ 
> root at 192.168.71.3:etc/ /mnt/hdb3/etc

Try the above with root at 192.168.71.3::etc/ 
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