[Gllug] rsync over ssh

[Matthew King]

"Adrian McMenamin" <adrian at newgolddream.dyndns.info> writes:

> The remote server uses a non-standard ssh port
>
> so I try rsync -ave ssh -p [odd port number]
> root at remoteserver:/var/www/somedirectory/ ./backup

Do you you run

rsync -ave ssh -p PORT root at remoteserver:/var/www/somedirectory/ ./backup

or

rsync -ave "ssh -p PORT" root at remoteserver:/var/www/somedirectory/ ./backup

Matthew

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