[ale] rsync ???

[Robert.L.Harris at rdlg.net (Robert L. Harris)]

Thus spake James CE Johnson (jcej at tragus.org):
> > I have a server mounting 2 nfs filesystems.  The filesystems are on 2
> > different servers so it can't be done local there.  I'm trying to use
> > rsync to mirror the contents since a few things may have changed since
> > the original was built out.
> >
> > At any rate I'm getting this:
> >
> > $ rsync -ar wcfsdtmf wcfsdtmf2
>
> You're trying to create a directory 'wcfsdtmf' on 'wcfsdtmf2'.
>
> Do this instead:
>  $ rsync -ar wcfsdtmf/ wcfsdtmf2/

I had tried this, but I had tried it as root.  The servers do not have
this exported with root having write permissions.  As the correct user
this worked fine with the trailing /


> That'll likely fail too, though, because it smells like wcfsdtmf2
> is mounted w/o permission for root (or whomever you're logged in
> as) to write to it.
>
> An alternative would be to login to the target system and do:
>   $ rsync -avx -e ssh sourceSystem:/path/to/wcfsdtmf/ /path/to/backup/of/wcfsdtmf/

Unfortunately I'm logging into the one server to copy from one EMC to
another.  No login permissions on the EMC.



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