rsync -avR -e ssh ...
rsync -avR -e ssh ...

このように6行以上書くとエラーになるんですがどうしてでしょう？

ssh: connect to host xxxx: Connection refused
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender]
rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at io.c(228) [sender=3.2.3]