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I'm now using rsync with -e 'ssh -p 10022' option to specify the port.

I have already ssh setting in ~/.ssh/config.

Host myvps

  HostName example.com

  User ironsand

  Port 10022

Can I use this config from rsync easily?
Or Can I create ~/.rsync and set a default port for specify server?

Specify "myvps" as the hostname.

rsync /var/bar myvps:/home/foo ...

This did not work for me. I have jump hosting in my ~/.ssh/config

Host 10.x.y.z

    User cloud-user

    HostName vm-pivot

    IdentityFile /path_to_vm_key



Host 21ct-dev1-*

    User cloud-user

    HostName %h.example.com

    ProxyCommand ssh 10.x.y.z -W %h:%p

    IdentityFile /path_to_vm_key





rsync -e "ssh" local_path vm-app01:/remote_path

ssh: Could not resolve hostname vm-app01: nodename nor servname provided, or not known
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender]
rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at /SourceCache/rsync/rsync-42/rsync/io.c(452) [sender=2.6.9]

However, this works just fine

[kbroughton@kbroughton:project + (develop)] ssh vm-app01

Last login: Thu Apr 17 12:10:37 2014 from 10.a.b.c

Edit, I was able to get past the name resolution by forcing rsync ssh to load a config file with -F
sudo rsync -az -e "ssh -F /Users/kbroughton/.ssh/config"

This gets past one error but onto another.
Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic).
ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host

Also tried explicitly setting -i and user@ in the connection but same error occurs.

EDIT

Another data point. If i use the floating ip of the pivot vm (jump host) instead of its name vm-pivot rsync works. But explicitly dumping all my ssh/config in the -e "ssh" does not work. Details: local mac, upgraded to rsync 3.1.0, remote centos rsync 3.0.9.

[kbroughton@kbroughton:project + (develop)] sudo /usr/local/bin/rsync -az -e "ssh -F /Users/kbroughton/.ssh/config -i /Users/kbroughton/.ssh/identities/vm_key -W 10.x.y.z:22"  /var/data/sources/data.tar.gz user@vm-pivot:/home/user



Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic).

ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host

rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender]

rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at io.c(226) [sender=3.1.0]



[kbroughton@kbroughton:project + (develop)] sudo /usr/local/bin/rsync -az -e "ssh -F /Users/kbroughton/.ssh/config -i /Users/kbroughton/.ssh/identities/vm_key -W 10.x.y.z:22"  /var/data/sources/data.tar.gz user@10.x.y.z:/home/user

protocol version mismatch -- is your shell clean?

(see the rsync man page for an explanation)

rsync error: protocol incompatibility (code 2) at compat.c(181) [sender=3.1.0]

This works

[kbroughton@kbroughton:project + (develop)] sudo /usr/local/bin/rsync -az -e "ssh -F /Users/kbroughton/.ssh/config -i /Users/kbroughton/.ssh/identities/vm_key"  /var/data/sources/data.tar.gz user@10.x.y.z:/home/user

@darKoram. For cases where you invoke ssh with non-standard path and try use ssh in ProxyCommand that is problem because there no inheritance. You have two option there: direct provide same file in inner command, or dynamically hack it.
You may look detailed description in my blog post about that: http://hubbitus.info/wiki/Blog:Ssh_forwarding_with_same_config_file_hack

Shortly in you situation should help configuration like:

Host 21ct-dev1-*

  User cloud-user

  HostName %h.example.com

  ProxyCommand ssh $( egrep -z -A1 '^-F$' /proc/$PPID/cmdline ) 10.x.y.z -W %h:%p

  IdentityFile /path_to_vm_key

@darKoram. Run the SSH process with sudo:

sudo /usr/local/bin/rsync -az -e "sudo -u user ssh" /var/data/sources/data.tar.gz vm-app01:/home/user

@darKoram

What is the full DNS name of "vm-app01"? It must be public, since you claim you could reach it within ssh without rsync. But, you expect ssh to catch your host via the pattern "21ct-dev1-*". I really cant see how this could work in any way. If you try to pattern hostnames, it should look something like this:

Host *.21ct-dev1-domain.tld

Then the call of rsync should then look something like this:

rsync -e "ssh" /local/path/ vm-app01.21ct-dev1-domain.tld:/remote/path/

How is "vm-app01" resolved? Hosts file, wins, nis, nss? Do you have an alias? Are you within a domain? It certainly looks like a "simple" DNS problem.