daniron26
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10 months ago I have the same problem.
Trying to escape the offending space character:
rsync_long_args --rsync-path=sudo\ rsync
Which had the effect of making the rsnapshot -t alpha outputted command execute without error, but in actual use there is still the error:
Unexpected remote arg:...
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What did you do?
I add the following argument to the configuration file: --rsync-path='sudo rsync' (I have also tried with double quotes). The documentation states: Quotes are permitted in rsync_long_args, eg --rsync-path="sudo /usr/bin/rsync".
What happened?
The resulting command (rsnapshot -t daily) is:
/usr/bin/rsync -a --delete --numeric-ids --relative --delete-excluded \ --rsync-path=sudo rsync --rsh=/usr/bin/ssh \ --link-dest=backup_destination \ username@server_to_backup:path_to_backup \
this causes an error with rsync (sudo: unrecognized option '--server') since it executes
/usr/bin/ssh -l username server_to_backup sudo --server ???????? --delete-excluded --numeric-ids --link-dest backup_destination . path_to_backup
What did you expect to happen
The quotes should be preserved and the following resulting command:
/usr/bin/ssh -l username server_to_backup "sudo rsync" --server --sender ???????? --numeric-ids . path_to_backup
how do I ensure that they are preserved?
My configuration
config_version 1.2 snapshot_root backup_destination cmd_cp /bin/cp cmd_rm /bin/rm cmd_rsync /usr/bin/rsync cmd_ssh /usr/bin/ssh cmd_logger /usr/bin/logger cmd_du /usr/bin/du retain daily 7 retain weekly 4 retain monthly 3 verbose 2 loglevel 3 logfile /var/log/rsnapshot.log lockfile /var/run/rsnapshot.pid rsync_long_args --delete --numeric-ids --relative --delete-excluded --rsync-path='sudo rsync' exclude .cache exclude /.local/share/Trash exclude .Trash exclude /Trash exclude /.gvfs exclude /.local/share/gvfs-metadata exclude .dbus exclude .aptitude exclude .dropbox exclude .dropbox-dist exclude .thumbnails exclude Dropbox exclude /.local/share/tracker exclude .thumbnails exclude .thumb exclude .DS_Store exclude /.virtualenvs exclude /thinclient_drives link_dest 1 use_lazy_deletes 1 backup username@ server_to_backup:path_to_backup backup_destination/backups
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