I am trying to set up hourly rsync beetwen my local machine and remote server. I have already created a ssh certificate to enable login less connection to remote machine.Now however when I execute the following command from my root account:rsync -avzhep /home/  vps:/I got the following error:rsync: Failed to exec /home/: Permission denied (13)This seems strange to me as I am root and i can normally access /home/ directory. Could you please advice what am I doing wrong? 
RSync - Permission denied (13) while executing rsync as a root
permissions;rsync
-e option is used to run a different remote shell, actually you are trying to execute /home/ which is not permitted.  Try :  rsync -avzh /home/  vps:/By the way :  The / at the end of /home/ indicates that you want to copy the content of /home to the remote root directory (vps:/). If your target is the remote /home directory, you should use : rsync -avzh /home/  vps:/homeorrsync -avzh /home  vps:/