Is it possible to specify a different ssh port when using rsync?

Your command line should look like this:

rsync -rvz -e 'ssh -p 2222' --progress ./dir user@host:/path

this works fine - I use it all the time without needing any new firewall rules - just note the SSH command itself is enclosed in quotes.

Another option, in the host you run rsync from, set the port in the ssh config file, ie:

cat ~/.ssh/config
Host host
    Port 2222

Then rsync over ssh will talk to port 2222:

rsync -rvz --progress --remove-sent-files ./dir user@host:/path

when you need to send files through a specific SSH port:

rsync -azP -e "ssh -p PORT_NUMBER" source destination

example

rsync -azP -e "ssh -p 2121" /path/to/files/source user@remoteip:/path/to/files/destination

use the "rsh option" . e.g.:

rsync -avz --rsh='ssh -p3382' root@remote_server_name:/opt/backups

refer to: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/rsync-ssh-on-different-port-448112/

The correct syntax is to tell Rsync to use a custom SSH command (adding -p 2222), which creates a secure tunnel to remote side using SSH, then connects via localhost:873

rsync -rvz --progress --remove-sent-files -e "ssh -p 2222" ./dir user@host/path

Rsync runs as a daemon on TCP port 873, which is not secure.

From Rsync man:

Push: rsync [OPTION...] SRC... [USER@]HOST:DEST

Which misleads people to try this:

rsync -rvz --progress --remove-sent-files ./dir user@host:2222/path

However, that is instructing it to connect to Rsync daemon on port 2222, which is not there.

I found this solution on Mike Hike Hostetler's site that worked perfectly for me.

# rsync -avz -e "ssh -p $portNumber" user@remoteip:/path/to/files/ /local/path/

When calling rsync within java (and perhaps other languages), I found that setting

-e ssh -p 22

resulting in rsync complaining it could not execute the binary:

ssh -p 22

because that path ssh -p 22 did not exist (the -p and 22 are no longer arguments for some reason and now make up part of the path to the binary rsync should call).

To workaround this problem I was able to use this environment variable:

export "RSYNC_RSH=ssh -p 2222"

(Programmatically set within java using env.put("RSYNC_RSH", "ssh -p " + port);)

A bit offtopic but might help someone. If you need to pass password and port I suggest using sshpass package. Command line command would look like this: sshpass -p "password" rsync -avzh -e 'ssh -p PORT312' root@192.xx.xxx.xxx:/dir_on_host/

My 2cents, in a single system user you can set the port also on /etc/ssh/ssh_config then rsync will use the port set here

I was not able to get rsync to connect via ssh on a different port, but I was able to redirect the ssh connection to the computer I wanted via iptables. This is not the solution I was looking for, but it solved my problem.