rsync with ssh on FC3

[Jeff Vian]

On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 11:44 +0530, Ankush Grover wrote:
> hey friends,
> 
> 
> I am trying to copy the contents of some directories(/opt & /home) on
> my servers to another machine through rsync. The problem I am facing
> is that  ssh is very restricted in my domain that is           
> 
>          ssh is running on some other port(50,000)
>          only few users r allowed access.
> 
> 
> rsync -pzv -e "ssh -l demo --port=50000" --progress demo at host::mail /home/demo/ demo.swx
> 
> demo is the user on other machine and it has the rights to do ssh, the
> machine is running on port 50000
> and the file i want to copy is demo.swx.Right now I am trying to copy
> only one file but I need to copy few directories.
> 
> what should be the syntax of rsync for my scenario.
> 
> 
Why not use scp?  It uses the ssh protocol and works similarly to cp.

   scp -P 50000 -p -r demo at host:<source.dir> <destination.dir>

should copy the entire source.dir directory tree (assuming the demo user
has permissions to do so) and retain original permissions, modes, etc.

man scp for full details

> Thanks & Regards
> 
> Ankush Grover
> 
> 
> 
> 
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