Recently, the local system admin upgraded me from humble linux user to confused linux admin. I just completed DNS/BIND (yay) install/configuration, and I have apache installed. Now that I have completed all these tasks/steps I want to back up all the work I have done using rsync. I use Mac OS X on my local system and I am using Scientific Linux 6 on the server. I would like to back up all the all files on the Linux server to the Mac OS X disk using rsync, but unfortunately I am getting error code 23 when using rsync on Mac OS X. Does anyone use rsync on Mac OS X around these parts, and if you do what command are you using to back up your files?

I'd say use -v to get verbose output (maybe even -vv...not sure if verbosity, verboseness, whatever, is incremented in rsync). Redirect output to file if necessary. This may list the specific files that aren't being transferred, and should give you a better idea of why the error is occurring.

Perhaps symlinks aren't being followed...in that case, try the -l option.

Now I am on a Windows machine, and I want to back up the files of a remote linux machine to a local windows drive.

some googlefu provided this

http://superuser.com/questions/300263/how-to-use-rsync-from-windows-pc-to-remote-linux-server