RSync with a non-standard SSH Port
Posted on December 8, 2007
While doing some work on the JQuery Plugins site today, I needed to use rsync over ssh. The ssh daemon on the remote server runs on a non-standard port, and all the port related options to rsync only change settings if you’re running the rsync-daemon.
After some searching, the man page of rsync finally offered a solution:
rsync -avz -e "ssh -p $portNumber" [email protected]:/path/to/files/ /local/path/
Passing the port parameter to ssh with the -e option worked like a charm. 🙂
This is why Unix rocks.
ikke
May 10, 2008 (10:59 am)
Thanks for this….. Had the same problem, now the same solution 🙂
Daniel
November 12, 2008 (7:35 pm)
Wonderful… just what I was looking for…
Anonymous
December 19, 2008 (2:18 pm)
Thank you. This is why google rocks… “rsync ssh non standard port”. You helped a lot. Thanks for posting.
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ling
April 26, 2010 (8:24 am)
Thanks a lot for this, just what I needed 😉
Leonardo Gregory Brunnet
April 10, 2011 (6:34 pm)
Thank you for the tip. It is always hard to grep solutions on man pages.
Tendydon
May 3, 2011 (7:55 am)
Thanks a lot I was also wondering how
Leon Nardella
May 14, 2011 (6:39 am)
Thank you very much!
I had been losing my hair after this one!
Cristobal
May 19, 2011 (3:26 pm)
Gracias.
Guillermo
August 1, 2011 (12:25 pm)
That was indeed useful.
Jpenguin
August 3, 2011 (9:13 pm)
Cool useful!
Durand
August 7, 2011 (8:37 am)
Thanks a lot!
Marklar
September 2, 2011 (7:21 pm)
Anyone know how to get this to work on Windows?
I installed cwRSync on Windows. I tried the command, but when /local/path is C:something it gives an error about both directories being remote. Any ideas?
synack
September 29, 2011 (11:48 am)
Here is the comman fro the script that I use to backup my windows workstation to and offite linux box – rsync -avzO -e “ssh -p 6883” –delete /cygdrive/c/data c %bkupuser%@bs01.g33k2.com:~/backups/daily01
You have to used the /cygdrive/ when refering to local drives with cygwin tools.
Ondrej Jombík
October 10, 2011 (9:54 pm)
Thanks man, this was exactly I was looking for! 🙂
Pete
January 10, 2012 (3:33 am)
Ditto!!!
Joe
March 6, 2012 (7:22 pm)
Thanks!
Guug
March 23, 2012 (12:49 am)
Well done! 🙂
Geno
March 27, 2012 (1:39 pm)
thanks a ton!
Expresso Viva
April 11, 2012 (4:39 am)
god job
thx lots
jon
July 4, 2012 (10:22 pm)
thank you…you saved me a whole lot of time
Adam
July 23, 2012 (12:36 am)
Just to verify, will this login to an ssh shell before staring any rsync traffic? I want to make sure the rsync is encrypted both directions before doing this to a remote server, i.e. it’s encrypted when I switch SRC/DEST:
rsync -avz -e “ssh -p $portNumber” /local/path/ [email protected]:/path/to/files/
dave
October 17, 2012 (9:12 am)
The post that keeps on giving. Thanks!
John Goodwin
November 16, 2012 (10:54 am)
And another vote of thanks! Trying to backup all my data from my PC to my new HP N40L microserver and I fell at the first hurdle. A quick Google search and I found this. I pass on my thanks, cheers.
John G
Alexey Moseyev
January 9, 2013 (3:52 pm)
Thank you!
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escapefromthebluebedroom
March 20, 2013 (12:34 pm)
Excellent, exactly what I was looking for!
Lee Burchett
April 24, 2013 (9:26 am)
Thanks. This is just what I was looking for.
NO
May 2, 2013 (3:29 pm)
Thanks / Saved my “night” …
AsherBond
May 13, 2013 (2:09 am)
I had a feeling I should have specified the port first. Helpful. – Asher Bond
thirdnormal
May 17, 2013 (12:08 pm)
Thank you. This worked perfectly for me.
Raul Montagne
May 22, 2013 (7:41 am)
Thank you! just what I was looking for!
Cristóbal Vio
June 25, 2013 (11:44 pm)
thx!!
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VINOJ
August 13, 2014 (2:38 am)
Thanks mate…
Symphozik
August 21, 2014 (2:53 pm)
Perfect, just what I needed! Thanks.
Veerasamy Kaunder
September 1, 2014 (2:11 am)
Thanks, i was needing this, and your suggestions worked.. Thanks again.
MrCambron
November 4, 2014 (2:57 pm)
I got some weird error message:
——-
protocol version mismatch — is your shell clean?
(see the rsync man page for an explanation)
rsync error: protocol incompatibility (code 2) at /SourceCache/rsync/rsync-42/rsync/compat.c(61) [receiver=2.6.9]
——-
My server is a Windows 7 machine and using some gui ssh server that I downloaded from a quick google search. And running the rsync command from my Mac OSX 10.9 machine.
David
February 10, 2015 (7:40 am)
Thanks!
zaiger
March 4, 2015 (5:29 pm)
Perfect, I was missing the -e parameter. Thank you!
mjp1800
March 24, 2015 (4:07 pm)
This worked great for backing up a remote NAS to a local destination. How would the command be restructured for sending files in the other direction?
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Nadav Kavalerchik
May 30, 2015 (3:53 am)
Thanks!
Theo Kouzelis
August 28, 2015 (12:04 pm)
Awesome thanks
Bruno Sousa
August 28, 2015 (1:21 pm)
Thanks for this….. Had the same problem, now the same solution 🙂
Jeremy Glover
September 17, 2015 (8:43 am)
Yay! Worked for me. Thanks!
tophibiz
September 24, 2015 (10:56 am)
Works like e charm 10x
Adler Santos
October 7, 2015 (11:32 pm)
Thank you! This is the simplest solution. I’m surprised this isn’t mentioned enough anywhere else.
Wildan Fathan
October 15, 2015 (8:22 pm)
It’s work. thankyou bro
Robert Smith
December 16, 2015 (10:46 am)
Thanks a lot!!
Zemtvs
January 27, 2016 (9:25 pm)
Thanks. I used $ sign with port number, then i realized that $ sign should not be used. worked
Katy
August 7, 2016 (2:54 am)
Thanks!
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Ramires Teixeira
October 24, 2016 (9:14 pm)
Thank you so much for this!
Thomas Varghese
December 15, 2016 (12:59 am)
Worked like a Charm!! 🙂
Grego
January 10, 2017 (1:39 pm)
Yep, worked for me. I saw –port=[otherport] on the manpage, but that didn’t work. Your parameter did the trick. Thanks
Al
January 31, 2017 (4:50 am)
MASSIVE HELP! Thanks.
Stefan Petrounov
March 15, 2017 (4:03 pm)
Thanks for reminding us to read the manuals 🙂 And for the shortcut to the solution of course! Regards,
Stefan
P.K. Hunter
March 24, 2017 (5:01 am)
How about multifactor authentication. If SSH requires that verification code, how do we ensure rsync can also use that?
Hell Mouth
May 18, 2017 (6:36 pm)
Thumbs up!
Wendal Chen
July 24, 2017 (9:07 pm)
good!
Luis Fontana
September 3, 2017 (9:10 am)
Merci 🙂
Maja Kessler
October 2, 2017 (6:37 am)
Big thanks! Still working fine in 2017 🙂
jack reacher
December 2, 2017 (2:51 pm)
nice article
Baretto James
December 12, 2017 (8:45 am)
While searching for the same thing “rsync non standard port” I came across a blog recommending me to use GS Richcopy 360. It had a trial period, so I used it and yes it solved the errors and I completely replaced Rsync with this. GS richcopy is even better than rsync. Nice post by the way!
AmericanPenguin
February 2, 2018 (9:45 am)
Works. Thanks.
Patrizio Bekerle
July 17, 2018 (12:48 am)
Thanks for the help!
ros ros
July 17, 2018 (1:01 pm)
Isn’t that just awesome?
cocotucafe
September 30, 2018 (9:51 pm)
Good work! I like using rsync to backup local files to a remote server. Thanks!