[ale] [ot] Xmpp, ejabberd question

[Brian Mathis]

There's no need for the -e stuff for a long time now.  Rsync uses ssh
by default on all modern versions.  You get the same effect using the
simpler form of:

    rsync -P file.to.transfer username at remote.host:/path/store/file/

❧ Brian Mathis


On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 11:44 PM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com> wrote:
> XMPP is really not the right tool for this. Rsync is what you want:
>
> $ rsync -P -e "ssh -l username" file.to.transfer
> remote.host:/path/store/file/
>
> Where "username" is the SSH user you will be using to transfer the file.
>
>
> On Monday, December 26, 2011, Wolf Halton <wolf.halton at gmail.com> wrote:
>> What would be wrong with using xmpp as a transfer protocol for moving
>> backups of tarred files? I have used scp for this purpose, but if the tunnel
>> is broken, the file is corrupted. From what I have been reading, if a
>> session drops in xmpp, it picks up where it was dropped and continues. I am
>> working inside a c-class private subnet.
>>
>> http://sourcefreedom.com