How to rsync to a server that does not have rsync but has the SCP tool

taco_truck_tom

The remote server is a FreeBSD like system from which rsync is not installed : $ ssh admin@x.y.z.t which rsync scp Password: rsync not found /usr/local/bin/scp $ rsync -a /ring/0/share/Archives_AudioVisuel/TEST admin@x.y.z.t:/ifs/par-nas01/data/MPP/ADN_Archives/Audiovisuels/ Password: zsh:1: command not found: rsync rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender] rsync error: remote command not found (code 127) at...

Originally asked by SebMa on Stack Exchange (superuser) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

If you are unable to install software on the remote FreeBSD machine, but can install software on your local Linux machine, you may use sshfs as a workaround. mkdir my_mountpoint # The pathname (here just a slash) indicates the root of the mounted FS. sshfs admin@remote_machine:/ $_ The sshfs command starts the /usr/libexec/sftp-server command on the remote FreeBSD machine, a pre‑installed binary. Now you can use your mount point as if it was in the global pathname namespace. Remember the ${_} shell variable expands to the previous command’s last argument. rsync -a /ring/0/share/Archives_AudioVisuel/TEST \ ${_}/ifs/par-nas01/data/MPP/ADN_Archives/Audiovisuels/ Once you are done, unmount the...

Full answer by Kai Burghardt: https://superuser.stackexchange.com/a/1836997 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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