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@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. > > > Thanks & Regards > > Ankush Grover > > I doubt that there is a direct solution. I'd create a SSH tunnel to the machine, and run rsync on top of it (by connecting to the local mirrored port). ssh (-C) -L <local port>:<remote IP>:<remote port> Gilboa
