Rsync bug

July 27 2011 by linc in CentOS, Linux, Programming, RedHat, System Administration |No Comments

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Bitten by the rsync bug? I was. Apparently in the new RHEL 5.7, and I am sure the RH clones like CentOS, Scientific Linux and ClearOS(?) as well, there is a bug in rsync when you use it with ssh transport like so:

rsync -avz -e ssh remotehost:/data /data

The fix is to make sure to append a username to your host and then it magically starts working properly again.

rsync -avz -e ssh username@remotehost:/data /data

Enjoy!

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