[ale] [ot] Xmpp, ejabberd question

[Geoffrey Myers]

Jim Kinney wrote:
> Hmm. Somwone needs to update the rsync man pages to reflect -e default 
> is ssh

That is news to me as well.

> 
> On Dec 27, 2011 10:12 AM, "Brian Mathis" 
> <brian.mathis+ale at betteradmin.com 
> <mailto:brian.mathis%2Bale at betteradmin.com>> wrote:
> 
>     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 <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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
> 
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