Comments on: Sync Windows Directories with Linux

By: Richard Minutillo

Richard Minutillo — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 19:48:40 +0000

Got ssh to work: created the .ssh directory from the command line. No problem.

By: Richard Minutillo

Richard Minutillo — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 19:07:31 +0000

This was very helpful, but running rsync under Windows7 I get something like this:

Could not create directory ‘/home/me/.ssh’.
The authenticity of host ‘myhost’ can’t be established.
RSA key fingerprint is xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
Failed to add the host to the list of known hosts (/home/me/.ssh/known_hosts).

So Windows7 prevents the creation of any directory whose name starts with the period character. The rsync command itself works once I enter ‘yes’ at the prompts which are coming from ssh, but I cannot execute the command unattended.

The host is in fact a known host to my windows system, since I can connect with Putty and Filezilla, it’s just that command line ssh cannot create its directory named .ssh. Is there a syntax that will allow me to substtute PuTTY for ssh?

By: Evgeny

Evgeny — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 10:18:45 +0000

THANKS!!!

By: abenderx

abenderx — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 18:30:10 +0000

DOH forget it – typo on the remote account O.o I should have waited before I commented lol.

By: abenderx

abenderx — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 18:23:13 +0000

Great article – I am having one issue someone might know about here. When I run multiple rsync commands in the same batch file, I get a paasword prompt on the second rsync and onwards. Would the ssh session from the previous line be impacting the key call somehow??

By: ilissan

ilissan — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:57:07 +0000

correction:

SET HOME=%USERPROFILE%

By: ilissan

ilissan — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:56:26 +0000

Nice tut, thanks!
IMPORTANT to know that in the Batch example file if you are running it from scheduled task you should change home directory from
SET HOME=%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%
to
SET HOME TO %USERPROFILE%
in order to point to the correct path.

By: Stephan Bayer

Stephan Bayer — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:30:48 +0000

This is awesome. Thanks for sharing.

Step 5 is redundant though. You just need step 4.

Also if you are running Windows Server or something you have to be careful of the Program files directory in the batch file:

SET CWRSYNCHOME=C:\Program Files (x86)\cwRsync\

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By: admin

admin — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 15:21:23 +0000

Thanks Alvin, I didn’t want to write over any authorized key files one might already have in the .ssh directory on the server. I’ve updated this how-to. Now your “ssh_key.pub” should be copied over to the server as “authorized_keys” in the .ssh directory.

Please let me know if you have any other problems.