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Before reading here, make sure you check out all of the info provided by the rsync maintainers at rsync.samba.org. If you have a technical question that cannot be answered anywhere, please feel free to contact the rsyncxdev team.
Q: In what situations would I use RsyncX?
A: If you have data that needs to be backed up, use RsyncX. If the data has to be stored locally, use RsyncX. If the data has to be stored somewhere else on the network, use RsyncX.
A: If you have applications and utilities that need to be sent to other machines, use RsyncX. If you would like to make sure all of your machines have the correct versions of data, applications, and utilities, then use RsyncX.
A: If you have files and folders that need to be in multiple locations, use RsyncX.
Q: In what situations would I use RsyncXCD?
A: If you have already created a loadset folder on a server, and you have a machine that needs this loadset pulled down to it, then use RsyncXCD to boot the machine, initialize its hard drive, and use RsyncX from the CD to connect to the server and retrieve the loadset folder. This folder would be placed on to the top level, or root, of the initialized hard drive of the destination machine.
A: RsyncXCD should only be used to boot destination machines that are awaiting a new loadset image folder from a server on your network. This CD is extremely useful for older machines, pre-OS X machines, or any machine with a single hard drive partition.
Q: I'm sitting at a machine, and would like to use RsyncX to send files between two machines that cannot reach each other easily via ssh. I can reach both via ssh. Can I do this?
A: Yes you can. RsyncX supports "Man in the Middle" file transfers, where the RsyncX script is not running on the source or destination machine. This is accomplished by providing the complete address of both the source and destination machines, in addition to the paths and/or file names that you would like to send. If there are special uniqnames for each account on both remote machines, they can be entered as appropriate.
Q: I'm getting malloc errors on some of my RsyncX file transfers. How do I fix this?
A: These errors occur when old tempfiles left by previous versions of RsyncX are not removed. This problem can be fixed by logging into the source machine as root, and then moving to the volume where files and folders are being sent. From there, issue:
root# rm "`find / -name '*-rsynckb*' -print`"
This should remove all old tempfiles, and the problem should be fixed.
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