copy rsync from server to local vice versa

ref:  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9090817/copying-files-using-rsync-from-remote-server-to-local-machine


From your local machine:

rsync -chavzP --stats user@remote.host:/path/to/copy /path/to/local/storage
From your local machine with a non standard ssh port:

rsync -avz -e "ssh -p $portNumber" user@remote.host:/path/to/copy /local/path
Or from the remote host, assuming you really want to work this way and your local machine is listening on SSH:

rsync -chavzP --stats /path/to/copy user@host.remoted.from:/path/to/local/storage