Configure Rsync server on Ubuntu VPS

Installing rsync

Perform the following command installation:

Apt-get install-y rsync

You can then use the following command to see which files are installed:

Dpkg-l rsync

Configuring Rsync

Modify the corresponding content in the configuration file/etc/default/rsync as:

Rsync_enable=true

Add the configuration file/etc/rsyncd.conf, as follows:

Port = 873

UID = root

GID = root

Use chroot = yes

Read Only = yes

Hosts allow=204.74.0.0/255.255.0.0

Hosts deny=*

Max connections = 5

Log file =/var/log/rsyncd.log

Log format =%t%a%m%f%b

Syslog facility = Local3

Timeout = 300

[Public]

Path =/home/pics/www

List=yes

Ignore errors

Auth users = Pics

Secrets file =/etc/rsyncd.secrets

Comment = Pics www

Create a file/etc/rsyncd.secrets content is a user name and password, such as:

Pics:mypassword

Then execute the following command:

chmod 700/etc/rsyncd.secrets

This is configured so that you can start the Rsync server by running the following command:

/etc/init.d/rsync restart

Rsync Client

The rsync command can be used on the client side, such as:

Rsync Rsync://[email Protected]/public

rsync--password-file=/etc/rsync.password rsync://[email protected]/public/home/pics/www--recursive--times--links --hard-links--delete-av

Configure Rsync server on Ubuntu VPS