How can rsync with ssh be used on a non standard ssh port

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 09:43:39AM -0600, eculp at casasponti.net wrote:
> Test example.
>
> I need to sync a directory from my machine to another that is using port 
> 722 rather than 22.  I can use ssh -pm722, scp -P 722 fine but I prefer 
> rsync for the backup due to configuration flexibility.  The man says:
>
> rsync [OPTION...] SRC... rsync://[USER@]HOST[:PORT]/DEST
>
> Which I translate to something like:
>
> rsync -avz /almacen/testDir rsync://backupMachine.com:722/backup/
>
> but I get the following:
>
> rsync: server sent "SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.1p1 FreeBSD-20080901" rather than 
> greeting
> rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at  
> main.c(1504) [sender=3.0.4]
>
> I've tried variants to the point of no return.  Help would be appreciated.

Check out the -e flag for rsync.  There are examples of how to use this
inside of the rsync(1) man page.

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