How to rsync to an external HDD with TCP/IP ?

[John DeCarlo]

On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 10:19 PM, SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux <
i-ubux at synass.net> wrote:

>
> Booting the system this morning the first time this external TCP/IP HDD
> shows up properly with a FTP folder on desktop as 192.168.144.140 ;-D
>
> I am able too to create and manipulate folders ;-))
>
> So, optimistically I tried rsync to get a first backup to that unit with
> the following result:
>
> sna at WS222:~$ sudo rsync -av --progress /home/sna/
> smb://192.168.144.140/Backup/710_804
> ssh: smb: Name or service not known
> rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender]
> rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(454)
> [sender=2.6.9]
> sna at WS222:~$
>

Here are some suggestions:

1.  replace "smb:" with "ftp:"  It does support ftp, right?

2.  Try using "smb4k" to see if you can see the drive.  Remember, SMB is
more complicated.  There may be a user name, a password, a workgroup/domain
associated with it.  You won't know until you have connected via SMB.

-- 
John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own
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