diff --git a/doc/special_remotes/web/comment_3_e6ce9bb92c973350852c9498b7ffb50f._comment b/doc/special_remotes/web/comment_3_e6ce9bb92c973350852c9498b7ffb50f._comment new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..01b1b2a1c6 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/special_remotes/web/comment_3_e6ce9bb92c973350852c9498b7ffb50f._comment @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +[[!comment format=sh + username="spiderbit" + avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/5c1baf041aa5516cb28a2618f7263a56" + subject="dont have success with other download commands" + date="2016-11-05T17:00:54Z" + content=""" +First a few questions: +1. is this backend supposed to be recursive or does it supports that? +2. does it need a download command in the following format: + <program> <url> + +I assumed this 2 are true. + +Well rsync, sftp and scp need a second <to> paramater, they did not work. + +So I wrote a small wrapper to add the default \".\" as target location: + +filename: rsync-get +#!/usr/bin/env bash +rsync -r \"$1\" . + +sadly still no sucess: + +~/annex $ git annex addurl -c annex.web-download-command=rsync-get mars:/mnt/data/folder/ +addurl _mnt_data_folder_ (downloading mars:/mnt/data/folder/ ...) +failed +git-annex: addurl: 1 failed +CallStack (from HasCallStack): + error, called at ./CmdLine/Action.hs:41:28 in main:CmdLine.Action + +I also tried it with a url to a file, in the case that it not supports recursive operations, that did not work, too. +"""]]