Title: Transfer: Error in rsync protocol data stream
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Transfer: Error in rsync protocol data stream

 *  Resolved [B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thestaceyrenee/)
 * (@thestaceyrenee)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/transfer-error-in-rsync-protocol-data-stream/)
 * I am hoping this plugin ends up working for what I need but I am getting a transfer
   error?
 * > [View post on imgur.com](https://imgur.com/vCqcpkK)
 * Also, is this supposed to remove everything that was on the staging site and 
   redirect it to the live site? I attempted it once from a dev.myurl.com to test.
   myurl.com and the dev portion was redirected. I trashed it and tried it again
   but now I am getting an error.
 * Thanks for any help, much appreciated.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/pushlive/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/pushlive/)

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 *  [Brian Savage](https://wordpress.org/support/users/briansavage/)
 * (@briansavage)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/transfer-error-in-rsync-protocol-data-stream/#post-7159704)
 * did any answers come of this?
 * Love the plugin – but keep having the same issue.
 *  Thread Starter [B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thestaceyrenee/)
 * (@thestaceyrenee)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/transfer-error-in-rsync-protocol-data-stream/#post-7159720)
 * No, unfortunately I haven’t heard anything back yet.
 *  [caw242](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caw242/)
 * (@caw242)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/transfer-error-in-rsync-protocol-data-stream/#post-7159773)
 * A couple of quick questions, were you able to resolve your problem? Are your 
   sites on separate servers? If they are on the same server are they using the 
   same account?
 * I was having trouble with the plugin on multiple fronts, one is the commands 
   executed for the database operations left out the DB host name and as such were
   all being executed against localhost (I fixed these myself as I’m on a tight 
   deadline), the other was the issues with rsync.
 * With rsync, if the live account is on another server it may be tricky to get 
   this to work without modifying the code. You can specify the account name and
   host in the Live Install Path (account@host:/path to wp) but I haven’t tested
   creating a password file and using the command line option –password-file.
 * If they are two separate accounts on the same server, you can add the staging
   user to the unix group that the live user is in and then set the group write 
   permission on the wp folder to allow the staging user to write into the live 
   users wp directory. This was how I got around the error. Though I first attempted
   setting account@host in the Install Path, but my server hosting all of my WP 
   sites are in Amazon EC2 and after playing with certs for auto login for awhile
   I decided to go another route.
 *  Thread Starter [B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thestaceyrenee/)
 * (@thestaceyrenee)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/transfer-error-in-rsync-protocol-data-stream/#post-7159774)
 * I actually figured this out but I am now using a different plugin. The staging
   sites weren’t on separate server and they were using the same database so any
   search and replace was replacing the whole database so that is why it was wiping
   out the other staging site (duh and ah-ha! moment). What I ended up doing was
   manually setting up the staging site, importing the databases in so they had 
   their own databases, replacing the domains with a string replacement in my PHP
   admin, and using [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-migrate-db/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-migrate-db/)
   to push the changes live after everything was set up.

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/transfer-error-in-rsync-protocol-data-stream/#post-7159774)
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