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Arch Linux - rsync succeeds but prsync does not work

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I am moving a large number of files from one PC to another. The two PCs are in 192.168.0.0/24. I started by ryncing all music I had on my source PC to my new PC.
> rsync -P --recursive 192.168.0.201:/home/oldpc/Music /home/newpc/
oldpc@192.168.0.201's password: 
receiving incremental file list
Music/helloworld.mp3
...
The command completed without issues. My
/Documents
folder has over 10000 small files, which would consume a lot of time to transfer one by one. So I found
, which is able to rsync in parallel. I installed
-pssh
from AUR. I took note of this manual and wrote my command.
> prsync -H 192.168.0.201 -l oldpc -p 32 -A -x "-r -P" /home/oldpc/Documents /home/newpc/
Warning: do not enter your password if anyone else has superuser
privileges or access to your account.
Password: 
[1]  16:14:44 [SUCCESS] 192.168.0.201
The command completed in a split second, with no file changes made on either end. I tried the same command a few more times, but it always failed.
> prsync -H 192.168.0.201 -l oldpc -p 32 -A -x "-r -P" /home/oldpc/Documents /home/newpc/
Warning: do not enter your password if anyone else has superuser
privileges or access to your account.
Password: 
[1]  16:15:20 [FAILURE] 192.168.0.201 Exited with error code 255
After waiting a few minutes, I tried one last time, where it succeeded and exited immediately once again without any actual file transfer. What is wrong with my prsync command?
Asked by Hyunbin Yoo (175 rep)
May 17, 2025, 04:34 PM