rsync error: remote command not found (code 127) at io.c(605):

Question

I get the following error:

    sudo ionice -c 3 nice -n +19 rsync -av --progress -e 'ionice -c 3 nice -n +19 ssh -l root -p 22 192.168.0.1' 192.168.0.1:/domains/remote/. /domains/local/;
root@192.168.0.1's password:
bash: 192.168.0.1: command not found
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [Receiver]
rsync error: remote command not found (code 127) at io.c(605) [Receiver=3.0.9]

rsync worked earlier, now I get this error.

EDIT1:

root@local-debian7:/root# rsync -av --progress -e 'ssh -l root -p 22 192.168.0.1' 192.168.0.1:/domains/remote/. /domains/local/;
root@192.168.0.1's password:
bash: 192.168.0.1: command not found
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [Receiver]
rsync error: remote command not found (code 127) at io.c(605) [Receiver=3.0.9]

Still the same after simplifying.

EDIT2:

rsync -av --progress -e 'ssh -l root -p 22' 192.168.0.1:/domains/remote/. /domains/local/;

After removing first 192.168.0.1 in -e part, finally successfully works!

Thanks to @andrew-domaszek!

score 12 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 01 '17 at 16:52

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The error is quite clear: one of the remote command/program (most probably rsync) is not found. Can you double-check that rsync is installed on the remote machine and that the PATH variable is correctly configured?

Anyway, your rsync command seems unnecessarily complex: try running something as

rsync -avn --progress root@192.168.0.1:/domains/remote/ /domains/local/

Does it change anything?

answered Apr 01 '17 at 16:52

shodanshok

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`192.168.0.1` is the command that's not found. It thinks that is the command. Andrew's answer is right. – David Knipe Aug 04 '17 at 13:01
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@shodanshok solution is correct. If the remote host doen't have rsync installed, then source host can't sync with remote host source host will stop syncing. – Hasanuzzaman Sattar Feb 26 '20 at 06:45

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 28 '21 at 14:29

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I had the same error. In my case the problem was missing rsync on the remote linux. Once I installed rsync on the remote machine, rsync works like a charm.

answered Apr 28 '21 at 14:29

Ivy Growing

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 01 '17 at 16:51

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Try specifying the full paths to nice, ionice and ssh in the -e block. Something is not in the path more than likely.

answered Apr 01 '17 at 16:51

Matthew Ife

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 01 '17 at 18:18

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Remove 192.168.0.1 from the -e string.

answered Apr 01 '17 at 18:18

Andrew Domaszek

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Your solution helped! Now works! – klor Apr 01 '17 at 21:23

rsync error: remote command not found (code 127) at io.c(605):

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