Installing rsync on Vmware ESX 3 with minimum impact
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Need rsync to run a backup from my virtual machines. Rsync is not installed on Vmware ESX 3 and I wanted to install only the binaryfile rsync if possible.
I search rsync from Redhat 7.3 and found it in http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/dag/redhat/7.3/i386/rsync-2.6.9-1.rh7.rf.i386.html
Transfering the rpm-file to vmware-mother's ~root/tmp/ by scp
[root@mother tmp]# rpm2cpio rsync-2.6.9-1.rh7.rf.i386.rpm | cpio -idmv
[root@mother tmp]# mkdir ~root/bin
[root@mother tmp]# cp ./usr/bin/rsync ~root/bin
Clean up tmp-directory after that.
Trying it out
me@home:~/tmp$ rsync -e ssh --rsync-path='/root/bin/rsync' \
-az root@mother.somewhere.com:/etc/hosts .
Need rsync to run a backup from my virtual machines. Rsync is not installed on Vmware ESX 3 and I wanted to install only the binaryfile rsync if possible.
I search rsync from Redhat 7.3 and found it in http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/dag/redhat/7.3/i386/rsync-2.6.9-1.rh7.rf.i386.html
Transfering the rpm-file to vmware-mother's ~root/tmp/ by scp
[root@mother tmp]# rpm2cpio rsync-2.6.9-1.rh7.rf.i386.rpm | cpio -idmv
[root@mother tmp]# mkdir ~root/bin
[root@mother tmp]# cp ./usr/bin/rsync ~root/bin
Clean up tmp-directory after that.
Trying it out
me@home:~/tmp$ rsync -e ssh --rsync-path='/root/bin/rsync' \
-az root@mother.somewhere.com:/etc/hosts .