Rsync module path needs to be a home directory

Question

I'm trying to use rsync to backup windows servers to an rsync server. I'm having problems with rsync on the linux side though, it doesn't like symlinks.

Currently I'm trying to use the module path of ~/backup, but rsync says that the chroot failed. I looked up what to do and saw that I needed to add the option use chroot = no and munge symlinks = no. That fixed the @ERROR: chroot failed but now it's telling me @ERROR: chdir failed and the log files say that there is no ~/backup directory. I know the user I'm authenticating with has a backup folder in his directory.

How can I fix this?

For reference I'm using a .NET port of rsync called NetSync and tunneling it over a port forwarded SSH connection generated with granados.

Answer 1

I suspect that the ~ may not be being globbed correctly. Two ideas:

1. ~ refers to the current user's home (what user are you authenticating as?). Did you mean ~user/backup?

2. Perhaps it's the ~ that's causing problems. Test with the full absolute path, eg /home/user/backup.

Answer 2

IIRC, tilde (~) expansion is done by the shell. chdir() doesn't handle this.

Try an absolute path. If you don't like that, then try using "backup" (or ./backup) on the assumption that after login, the current directory will be set to the user's home directory.