If you have more than the last leaf directory to be created, you can either run a separate ssh … mkdir -p first, or use the –rsync-path trick as explained here : rsync -a –rsync-path=”mkdir -p /tmp/x/y/z/ && rsync” $source user@remote:/tmp/x/y/z/ Or use the –relative option as suggested by Tony. In that case, you only … Read more
If /foo/bar is on NFS (or possibly some FUSE filesystem), that might be the problem. Either way, adding -O / –omit-dir-times to your command line will avoid it trying to set modification times on directories.
The major difference between these tools is how they copy files. scp basically reads the source file and writes it to the destination. It performs a plain linear copy, locally, or over a network. rsync also copies files locally or over a network. But it employs a special delta transfer algorithm and a few optimizations … Read more
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 -chavzP -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 See man … Read more
Your command line should look like this: rsync -rvz -e ‘ssh -p 2222’ –progress ./dir user@host:/path this works fine – I use it all the time without needing any new firewall rules – just note the SSH command itself is enclosed in quotes.