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"No system SSH available" error on OpenShift rhc snapshot save on Windows 8

Steps To Replicate

On Windows 8.

In shell (with SSH connection active):

rhc snapshot save [appname]

Error

No system SSH available. Please use the --ssh option to specify the path to your SSH executable, or install SSH.

Suggested Solution

From this post:

Usage: rhc snapshot-save <application> [--filepath FILE] [--ssh path_to_ssh_executable]
Pass '--help' to see the full list of options

Question

The path to keys on PC is:

C:\Users\[name]\.ssh

How do I define this in the rhc snaphot command?

Solution

  • Solution

    rhc snapshot save [appname] --filepath FILE --ssh "C:\Users\[name]\.ssh"

    This will show the message:

    Pulling down a snapshot of application '[appname]' to FILE ...
... then after a while
Pulling down a snapshot of application '[appname]' to FILE ... DONE

    Update

    That saved the backup in a file called "FILE" without an extension, so I'm guessing in the future I should define the filename as something like "my_app_backup.tar.gz" ie:

    rhc snapshot save [appname] --filepath "my_app_backup.tar.gz" --ssh "C:\Users\[name]\.ssh"

    It will save in the repo directory, so make sure you move it out of this directory before you git add, commit, push etc, otherwise you will upload your backup too.