bobpeers -> blog » rsync http://blog.bobpeers.com Better late than never Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:34:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Rsync Over SSH Using Alternate Port and Private Key http://blog.bobpeers.com/2008/06/01/rsync-over-ssh-using-alternate-port-and-private-key/ http://blog.bobpeers.com/2008/06/01/rsync-over-ssh-using-alternate-port-and-private-key/#comments Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:36:56 +0000 Bob Peers http://blog.bobpeers.com/2008/06/01/rsync-over-ssh-using-alternate-port-and-private-key/ A previous post described how to set up a public/private key to log in to my disk station without a password and using an alternate port i.e. not port 22.

One of the consequences of this is that rsync no longer works without a few tweaks since by default it works over port 22 and expects a password.
To fix this just use the command below and rsync will work without interaction (assuming the key passphrase was left empty).

#  rsync -au -e 'ssh -p 99 -i /home/username/.ssh/id_rsa' /path/to/source HOST:/path/to/destination

Just replace -p 99 with your SSH port and /home/username/.ssh/id_rsa with the location of you private key.

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