RSYNC-SSL-TUNNEL(1)

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💅 RSYNC-SSL-TUNNEL(1) 💅

bestie welcome to the rsync-ssl-tunnel manual page — it's part of the ftpsync suite, and it's literally the little glow-up that lets rsync tunnel over TLS. grab a snack, we're doing infrastructure 💖

✨ NAME ✨

rsync-ssl-tunnel — Allows rsync to tunnel over TLS 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

rsync-ssl-tunnel

no args, no drama, just vibes ✨

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

Okay so. rsync-ssl-tunnel is part of the ftpsync suite, which exists for mirroring Debian and Debian-like repositories of packages 👑

Here's the tea: there are way too many mirrors of Debian to populate them all from the machine that generates the archive — and that machine is called “ftp-master” (iconic name, honestly). So instead of ftp-master yelling at every single mirror individually, the mirrors are organized in a tree-shaped hierarchy 🌳

Which means:

  • every mirror has exactly one upstream from which it syncs 💫
  • each mirror can have any number of downstreams, which in turn sync from it 🔥

it's giving family tree but make it packages. the way that one machine feeds a whole forest of mirrors?? ate. periodt 💅

💖 OPTIONS 💖

  • -C — The CA path for certificate verification 🔐

Default: /etc/ssl/certs

  • -m — The method used to connect to the remote host 📡

Default: stunnel

  • -p — The port used to connect to the remote host 🔌

Default: 1873

🌈 EXAMPLE 🌈

Example use with rsync, bestie — look how clean:

rsync -e rsync-ssl-tunnel

that's it. that's the whole flex. -e hands rsync your tunnel and it just works ✨🫶

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Debian mirror team. 💜

mwah 💋 that's the whole page. this one's from the ftpsync Manual (aka the RSYNC-SSL-TUNNEL(1) section of the ftpsync docs) — no cap, every flag, default and path up there is exactly as written. go mirror something, bestie 🌸💅

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