Can someone please explain how to upgrade rsync

[DWHS.net]

I would like to have the latest version.

A step by step would be awesome!

Thanks

[cPanelTristan]

You could just try:

yum update rsync

Is there a reason you need to update rsync? I wouldn't suggest using a version higher than what yum provides.

[DWHS.net]

You could just try:

yum update rsync

Is there a reason you need to update rsync? I wouldn't suggest using a version higher than what yum provides.

Thanks but that fails, I have the centos 4.8 on this server.

Is there a way to do from source?

Here is the yum error:

yum update rsync
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
update 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
addons 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Excluding Packages in global exclude list
Finished
Could not find update match for rsync
No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion

[karikas]

I would also love to solve the mystery of how to upgrade rsync while ensuring it still plays well with the rest of WHM. I'm running Redhat Enterprise 5 on one server and CentOS 5.5 which both run rsync 2.6.8. I do a nightly backup and the server load gets so high my system is unresponsive for several minutes each evening... not good! Doing some research it seems rsync 3.x goes a long way to reduce the cpu load.

Anybody have any advice or a resource to turn to to do the installation? I found a few other threads on here all asking the same question.

[InterServed]

You can download the latest version from the following link (matching your system):
Index of /rsync

And then you can update your current version via rpm -Uvh rpm-package

[karikas]

Hey, that's easy ;-). Thanks InterServed. That's just what I needed. Already making a huge difference using Rsync 3!

[InterServed]

Hey, that's easy ;-). Thanks InterServed. That's just what I needed. Already making a huge difference using Rsync 3!

You're more than welcome