sheenaustin.com » rsync http://www.sheenaustin.com my home on the interweb Wed, 21 Jul 2010 01:59:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc Using Rsync in VMWare http://www.sheenaustin.com/2009/12/25/using-rsync-in-vmware/ http://www.sheenaustin.com/2009/12/25/using-rsync-in-vmware/#comments Fri, 25 Dec 2009 12:51:00 +0000 Sheen http://www.sheenaustin.com/2009/12/25/using-rsync-in-vmware/
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    • ]]>     VMWare ESX runs a modified Linux Kernel. Sometimes, when you are doing basic administration tasks, you might find that there are certain Linux tools that you miss. One of the tools I miss most is the rsync tool. Its a very handy tool when it comes to data transfer. I searched high and low for a proper tool to do the job but never found one until now.

    The problem with installing a standard Linux package into VMWare ESX is that it will almost certainly mean that you go down the path of installing a whole bunch of dependencies along with it and eventually something might stop working. The best way around this, obviously, is to compile a static package from source with all dependencies included.

    Thus, searching around the internet, I found this rsync package that was statically compiled to work on VMWare ESX 3.5. on the VMWare communities page here. I have used it and found it to work without any issues on VMWare ESX 4.0.

    Please remember – this is not supported and if you decide to use this, you do so at your own risk.

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