rsync transfert no error but transfer is not happening

Question

I want to transfer files between 2 different servers via a shell script (password less)

I set up the SSH keys following this tutorial : http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/ssh-public-key-based-authentication-how-to.html

Then i try to the transfer of a file: test.txt from server1 to server2 using this command:

rsync -avz /home/tasklitetest/test.txt jansia@ps27670.dreamhost.com:/home/tasklite/

The command seems to execute without trouble because i got the following :

[2] 4920
[1]   Done                    rsync -avz /home/tasklitetest/test.txt jansia@ps27670.dreamhost.com
[ps115171]$ sending incremental file list

sent 62 bytes  received 12 bytes  148.00 bytes/sec
total size is 396  speedup is 5.35

But i got not file on my other server in /home/tasklite/

Answer 1

Is the server you're connecting to actually impossibly named "ps27670.dreamhost.com:" or is that supposed to be a ":" that got munged in your copy/paste? The error message you're getting suggests that you have a stray "&" that's telling the shell to put the rsync command into the background.

If this is the case, clean up your command and try again. You probably want this:

rsync -avz /home/tasklitetest/test.txt jansia@ps27670.dreamhost.com:/home/tasklite/