ssh_args

Hey all, I'm a bit of a rsnapshot newbie, but I don't this this is a
faq.  Either that or I really need to brush up on my google-fu.  In any
case, here's the deal.

I have a server "A" that I need to back up.  I have another server "B"
that is intended to pull the data down.  Both are Debian linux boxes
running rsnapshot 1.2.1

Server "A" has a user named "net-backup" with sudo access to rsync.  I
have ssh set up on port 2222.  root on server "B" has an ssh key that
the net-backup@A trusts.  That part works fine - I can connect without a
password.

Here's the issue.  In my rsnapshot.conf file, I specify ssh_args with -p
2222 so that it will use the right port.  The problem is that it seems
to be building the rsync connection incorrectly.  If I run rsnapshot in
level 4 output, I see this:

B:~/backup/snap# rsnapshot -c /root/backup/snap.conf daily
Setting locale to POSIX "C"
echo 24851 > /var/run/rsnapshot.pid
mkdir -m 0755 -p /root/backup/snap/daily.0/
/usr/bin/rsync -alptgoHuv --delete --numeric-ids --relative \
    --delete-excluded --rsync-path='sudo /usr/bin/rsync'
--rsh=/usr/bin/ssh \
    -p 2222 net-backup@A:/etc/ \
    /root/backup/snap/daily.0/etc/
building file list ... rsync: link_stat "/usr/bin/rsync'" failed: No
such file or directory (2)
rsync: link_stat "/root/backup/snap/net-backup@A:/etc/." failed: No such
file or directory (2)
done
created directory /root/backup/snap/daily.0/etc

The problem seems to be that in the rsync line, because the arguments to
ssh are separate, rsync is getting confused.  If I run this rsync line
manually, it syncs just fine (note the quotes around the rsh paramter):

/usr/bin/rsync -alptgoHuv --delete --numeric-ids --relative
--delete-excluded --rsync-path='sudo /usr/bin/rsync' --rsh="/usr/bin/ssh
-p 2222" net-backup@A:/etc/ /root/backup/snap/daily.0/etc/

My snap.conf file is below.  Can anybody offer some ideas as to how to
fix this?  Thanks in advance...

config_version  1.2
snapshot_root   /root/backup/snap/
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
interval    daily   180
verbose     4
loglevel    3
logfile /var/log/rsnapshot.log
rsync_short_args    -alptgoHu
rsync_long_args --delete --numeric-ids --relative --delete-excluded
--rsync-path='sudo /usr/bin/rsync'
ssh_args    -p 2222
du_args -csh
lockfile    /var/run/rsnapshot.pid
backup  net-backup@A:/etc/ etc/

-- 
Cole Tuininga <colet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Code Energy (http://www.code-energy.com/)



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