[CentOS] rsync to a port other than 22

Maciej Żenczykowski maze at cela.pl
Fri Dec 9 01:11:15 UTC 2005


You want to pass the port parameter to ssh not to rsync
use:

rsync -e "ssh ssh-parameters-here" ...
so
rsync -e "ssh -p port#" ...

On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Ed Morrison wrote:

> I am trying to use rsinc to tranfer my ftp  directory from one server to 
> another.  I have port 22 closed off due to port knocking and I am trying to 
> direct rsync to use another port.  Unfortunately I can't seem to get it to 
> use the specified port.  Here is my command, if someone could point out my 
> error I would appreciate it:
>
> rsync -avr --port=XXX xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/var/ftp /var/ftp
>
> The error this generates is:
>
> ssh: connect to host xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx port 22: Connection refused
> rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [receiver]
> rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(359)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ed
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