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Push Local Files to Remote​

Push files under a directory to a directory:

# local       remote
# /a/b/c/1    /x/
# /a/b/c/2
# /a/b/c/3
rsync -av -e ssh /a/b/c/ root@172.17.0.2:/x/
# local       remote
# /a/b/c/1    /x/1
# /a/b/c/2    /x/2
# /a/b/c/3    /x/3

Push a folder to a directory:

# local       remote
# /a/b/c/1    /x/
# /a/b/c/2
# /a/b/c/3
rsync -av -e ssh /a/b/c root@172.17.0.2:/x/
# local       remote
# /a/b/c/1    /x/c/1
# /a/b/c/2    /x/c/2
# /a/b/c/3    /x/c/3

Push a file to a directory:

# local       remote
# /a/b/c/1    /x/
rsync -av -e ssh /a/b/c/1 root@172.17.0.2:/x/2/
# local       remote
# /a/b/c/1    /x/2/1

Push a file to a path:

# local       remote
# /a/b/c/1    /x/
rsync -av -e ssh /a/b/c/1 root@172.17.0.2:/x/2
# local       remote
# /a/b/c/1    /x/2

mkdir -p​

rsync doesn't create directory tree. Use --rsync-path

--rsync-path=PROGRAM Use this to specify what program is to be run on the remote machine to start-up rsync.

# local       remote
# /a/b/c/1    /x/
# /a/b/c/2
# /a/b/c/3
$ rsync -av -e ssh /a/b/c/ root@172.17.0.2:/x/y/z/
sending incremental file list
rsync: mkdir "/x/y/z" failed: No such file or directory (2)
rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at main.c(675) [Receiver=3.1.2]
$ rsync -av -e ssh --rsync-path="mkdir -p /x/y/z && rsync" /a/b/c/ root@172.17.0.2:/x/y/z/
# local       remote
# /a/b/c/1    /x/y/z/1
# /a/b/c/2    /x/y/z/2
# /a/b/c/3    /x/y/z/3

Notice that mkdir -p and rsync should works on remote.

Delete​

# local       remote
# /a/b/c/1    /x/y/z/1
# /a/b/c/2    /x/y/z/3
# /a/b/c/3
$ rsync -av -e ssh /a/b/c/ root@172.17.0.2:/x/y/z/
# local       remote
# /a/b/c/1    /x/y/z/1
# /a/b/c/2    /x/y/z/3
# /a/b/c/3
rsync -av -e ssh --delete /a/b/c/ root@172.17.0.2:/x/y/z/
# local       remote
# /a/b/c/1    /x/y/z/1
# /a/b/c/3    /x/y/z/3

Exclude​

# local       remote
# /a/b/c/1    /x/
# /a/b/c/2
# /a/b/c/3
rsync -av -e ssh /a/b/c/ root@172.17.0.2:/x/ --exclude 2
# local       remote
# /a/b/c/1    /x/1
# /a/b/c/2    /x/3
# /a/b/c/3

Multiple:

# local       remote
# /a/b/c/1    /x/
# /a/b/c/2
# /a/b/c/3
rsync -av -e ssh /a/b/c/ root@172.17.0.2:/x/ --exclude 2 --exclude 3
# local       remote
# /a/b/c/1    /x/1
# /a/b/c/2
# /a/b/c/3

Wildcard:

# local          remote
# /a/b/c/1       /x/
# /a/b/c/2
# /a/b/c/3
# /a/b/c/4.md
# /a/b/c/5.md
# /a/b/c/6.md
rsync -av -e ssh /a/b/c/ root@172.17.0.2:/x/ --exclude "*.md"
# local       remote
# /a/b/c/1    /x/1
# /a/b/c/2
# /a/b/c/3