Rsync files from a remote machine into another remote machine (Indirectly)

sparkling · 04-27-2017, 10:41 AM

Hi all,

I am trying to backup the files from a server's /home/user directory into my backup machine. So we call the VM where the files are "server" and the one that is supposed to keep the backed-up files "my-backup".

My local workstation is able to SSH to both pf these machine (server and backup) I need to run the rsync command to backup the files on server VM onto /srv/backup directory of my-backup machine. This is how I've done it but didn't work:

Code:

ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -R 50000:my-backup:22 server 'rsync -e "ssh  -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -p 50000" -vuar /home/user localhost:/srv/backup'

Error:

Code:

Permission denied, please try again.
Permission denied, please try again.
Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic,password).
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender]
rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at io.c(605) [sender=3.0.9]

Any help would be much appreciated.

HappyTux · 04-27-2017, 11:36 AM

ssh into one of the machines run the rsync command then logout once done. Also the /home/user localhost:/srv/backup part does not look right backing up to the /home/user localhost:/srv/backup/ should allow the /home/user directory to be backed up into the /srv/backup directory the original command leaves it no where to backup to.