rsync how can I configure it to create target directory on server

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I would like to rsync from local computer to server  On a directory that does not exist  and I want rsync to create that directory on the server first   How can I do that

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The -R  --relative option will do this   For example  if you want to backup  var named chroot and create the same directory structure on the remote server then -R will do just that

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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   amp  amp  rsync   source user remote  tmp x y z    Or use the --relative option as suggested by Tony  In that case  you only specify the root of the destination  which must exist  and not the directory structure of the source  which will be created   rsync -a --relative  new x y z  user remote  pre existing dir    This way  you will end up with  pre existing dir new x y z   And if you want to have  y z   created  but not inside  new x    you can add    where you want --relativeto begin   rsync -a --relative  new x   y z  user remote  pre existing dir    would create  pre existing dir y z

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from rsync manual  man rsync  --mkpath                 create the destination s path component

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Assuming you are using ssh to connect rsync  what about to send a ssh command before   ssh user server mkdir -p existingdir newdir   if it already exists  nothing happens

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eg    from   xxx a b c d e 1 html  to  user remote  pre existing dir b c d e 1 html  rsync   cd  xxx a   amp  amp  rsync -auvR b c d e  user remote  pre existing dir

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I don t think you can do it with one rsync command  but you can  pre-create  the extra directory first like this   rsync --recursive emptydir  destination newdir   where  emptydir  is a local empty directory  which you might have to create as a temporary directory first    It s a bit of a hack  but it works for me   cheers  Chris

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this worked for me    rsync  dev null node existing-dir new-dir    I do get this message    skipping non-regular file  null    but I don t have to worry about having an empty directory hanging around

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This answer uses bits of other answers  but hopefully it ll be a bit clearer as to the circumstances  You never specified what you were rsyncing - a single directory entry or multiple files   So let s assume you are moving a source directory entry across  and not just moving the files contained in it   Let s say you have a directory locally called data myappdata  and you have a load of subdirectories underneath this  You have data  on your target machine but no data myappdata  - this is easy enough   rsync -rvv  path to data myappdata  user host  remote path to data myappdata   You can even use a different name for the remote directory   rsync -rvv --recursive  path to data myappdata user host  remote path to data newdirname   If you re just moving some files and not moving the directory entry that contains them then you would do   rsync -rvv  path to data myappdata   txt user host  remote path to data myappdata    and it will create the myappdata directory for you on the remote machine to place your files in  Again  the data  directory must exist on the remote machine   Incidentally  my use of -rvv flag is to get doubly verbose output so it is clear about what it does  as well as the necessary recursive behaviour   Just to show you what I get when using rsync  3 0 9 on Ubuntu 12 04     rsync -rvv   txt user remote machine  tmp newdir  opening connection using  ssh -l user remote machine rsync --server -vvre iLsf    tmp newdir  user remote machine s password  sending incremental file list created directory  tmp newdir delta-transmission enabled bar txt foo txt total  matches 0  hash hits 0  false alarms 0 data 0   Hope this clears this up a little bit

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