Automate rsync w/ authentication

[Piet van Oostrum]

>>>>> Bryan <bryanvick at gmail.com> (B) wrote:

>B> I tried removing the internal quotes, and splitting '-e' from the
>B> other arguments.  I still get the same ssh -h output however:

>B> rshArg = '/usr/bin/ssh -i /home/bry/keys/brybackup.key'
>B> args = [rsyncExec, '-a', '-v', '--dry-run', '-e', rshArg, source,
>B> dest]
>B> p = Popen(args, stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE)

For me it works. Of course I substituted local server names, file names
etc. I run this on Mac OS X 10.4.11. The server is some Linux system.

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#! /usr/bin/env python

from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
rsyncExec = '/usr/local/bin/rsync'

source = 'xxx.cs.uu.nl:/users/piet/yyyyyy'
dest = '/Users/piet/TEMP/test.rsync'

rshArg = '/usr/bin/ssh -i /Users/piet/.ssh/id_rsa'

args = [rsyncExec, '-a', '-v', '-e', rshArg, source, dest]

try:
	p = Popen(args, stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE)
	print 'rsync running with pid %s' % p.pid
	out, err = p.communicate()
	print 'Errors: %s' % err
	print 'Output: %s' % out
except Exception:
	print 'Error running rsync'
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It just copies the file.
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