On Jun 29, 2015, at 6:50 PM, Mike <1100100 at gmail.com> wrote: > > rsync -aAXHx -e 'ssh’ -e ssh has been the default in rsync for a very long time. I believe the newest CentOS where -e defaults to rsh instead is CentOS 3. You only need to give -e nowadays when you need nonstandard ssh options, and you don’t want to put them in your ~/.ssh/config file. A common example is a nonstandard port number: rsync -e "ssh -p 222" ...