Posted by jpluimers on 2026/10/20
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/10/20
I have been using rsync for years now to sync directories around on VMware ESXi systems with great success.
Usually when upgrading to new physical machines, I synced the things to migrate to a big disk, then physically mounted that disk in a new machine.
Not this time: because of an unscheduled event I had to bring up the target machine in a different place before I could assemble the data on the big disk.
But since there was a network tunnel between the networks of both ESXi machines, I wanted to transfer over ssh: a thing I had done numerous times between various Linux and unix machines.
The cool thing is that rsync supports remote connections over ssh out of the box. Between ESXi machines, I bumped into this error though:
sh: rsync: not found rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [Receiver] rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(226) [Receiver=3.1.2] Command exited with non-zero status 12
The last three lines are collateral of the first line, which I queried [Wayback/Archive] “sh: rsync: not found” – Google Search. Further below I will go deeper into the rabbit-hole I took, but the actual solution was to Read the rest of this entry »
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