bash: rsync: command not found

Question

I'm on OSX using iTerm (3) with prezto as my zsh configuration framework. I've a strange error message when I use rsync:

$ rsync -avz --exclude='.git' src/ remote:/dst
bash: rsync: command not found
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at /BuildRoot/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/rsync/rsync-51/rsync/io.c(453) [sender=2.6.9]

When I check the path to rsync I see:

$ which rsync
rsync: aliased to noglob rsync
$ type -a rsync
rsync is an alias for noglob rsync
rsync is /usr/bin/rsync

It seems that it's an alias declared by prezto that uses the noglob macro. I also tried to call the rsync command with /usr/bin/rsync but didn't help.

Any idea what's wrong here??

Solution

It turns out rsync has to be installed on the remote machine. I just did and now it works fine.

Comments

[terdon]

What is the output of type -a rsync ?

[bachr]

I updated the post with the result of type -a rsync.

[SYN]

rsync: command not found. Dude ...