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I've been having difficulty with connecting to my IPv6 address via rsync. Because the argument for the destination folder is colon-separated, the IPv6 address disrupts this like so:

root@fdff::ffff:ffff:ffff:/path/to/dest

How do I use rsync with an IPv6 address via SSH?

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You'll want to wrap the address in brackets like so:

rsync -rtlzv -e ssh /path/to/src 'root@[fdff::ffff:ffff:ffff]':/path/to/dest
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Try placing the IPv6 address in brackets, like this:

root@[2001:db8:1234:5678:feed:face:dead:beef]:/path
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I've run into the same issue and found out that the accepted answer did not work with my version of rsync (2.6.9) when using user@ as prefix

As a workaround you can use the -l user option of ssh:

rsync -e 'ssh -l root' /path/to/src '[fdff::ffff:ffff:ffff]:/path/to/dest'
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    That version has got to be more than 10 years old. Why are you using such an old version?
    – kasperd
    Dec 31, 2017 at 0:27
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    It's the default shipped with macOS 10.11 Jan 1, 2018 at 9:16
  • Thank you! I had this problem on OSX myself (10.12). Works perfectly, none of the other answers work.
    – Someguy123
    Oct 3, 2018 at 2:32
  • MacOS 12.6.2 is still on rsync 2.6.9
    – Steven Lu
    Feb 16, 2023 at 1:40

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