users etc on remote rsync
 

hi guys,

i have cygwin running on my windows server 2008r2 server, and im trying to copy directories to my centos server using rsync.

the problem is that on my cygwin terminal i am logged in as administrator@cp2008...and my user on the centos server is User@87.212.3.56...im pretty sure that i have a ssh tunnel setup using keys as if i type User@87.212.3.56 it doesnt prompt me for a password.

but when im trying to use rsync commands (not in a script yet, just trying to see if i can get a smaller directory over) i can see that its trying to create a folder with administrator@87.212.3.56...so how do i get around this?

do i have to specify in my script that the rsync commands are being run by User@87.212.3.56 or do i just create a user on my centos box called Administrator...

look i have no problem with sitting down and learning rsync commands etc...i dont expect to be spoon fed...i just want to know what direction i should be going

thanks guys...

Hi,

not sure what the problem is here. Are you aware that you can specify the remote username on the commandline with rsync? Eg
or
Evo2.

ok so i tried:

rsync -auv cygdrive/d/adtdata User@121.5.23.1:home/user/companydata/adt

when i enter i get

rsync; change_dir /cygdrive/d//cygdrive/d failed: no such file or directory (2)
rsync; change_dir #3 /home/user/companydata failed: no such file or directory (2)

what have i got wrong???

any ideas, please

is there more to configuring rsync using cygwin than meets the eye? am i missing something crucial?...

is configuring rsync from cygwin any different to a normal linux terminal?