Is it possible to specify a different ssh port when using rsync?

Question

I have been attempting the following command:

rsync -rvz --progress --remove-sent-files ./dir user@host:2222/path

SSH is running on port

Answer 1

Another option, in the host you run rsync from, set the port in the ssh config file, ie:

cat ~/.ssh/config
Host host
    Port 2222

Then rsync over ssh will talk to port 2222:

rsync -rvz --progress --remove-sent-files ./dir user@host:/path

Answer 2

The correct syntax is to tell Rsync to use a custom SSH command (adding -p 2222), which creates a secure tunnel to remote side using SSH, then connects via localhost:873

rsync -rvz --progress --remove-sent-files -e "ssh -p 2222" ./dir user@host/path

Rsync runs as a daemon on TCP port 873, which is not secure.

From Rsync man:

Push: rsync [OPTION...] SRC... [USER@]HOST:DEST

Which misleads people to try this:

rsync -rvz --progress --remove-sent-files ./dir user@host:2222/path

However, that is instructing it to connect to Rsync daemon on port 2222, which is not there.