Rsync to multiple remote servers

rsync

I have a file I want to sent to multiple separate servers.
Is it possible to name multiple destinations?

rsync foo.png server1:foo.png server2:foo.png

This gives me a "Unexpected remote arg:server1:foo.png

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No, there is no way in rsync to specify multiple destinations. You'll need to invoke the command multiple times. If you have many targets, you might want to consider using a network filesystem instead--it might be a better fit for your problem.

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Copying multiple files from remote using rsync over ssh

All remote files should be one argument for rsync. So, just put all remote files in single quotes:

rsync -Pav -e 'ssh -i sshkey' 'user@remotemachine:/home/user/file1.zip file2.zip file3.zip' .

BTW, you can also do this with a Asterisk (the Asterisk will be resolved by the remote shell then):

rsync -Pav -e 'ssh -i sshkey' 'user@remotemachine:/home/user/*.zip' .

Rsync to remote server that doesn’t have rsync installed

You can copy the local rsync binary to the other server using scp and then use rsync with the --rsync-path=PROGRAM directive where PROGRAM is the path to the uploaded rsync binary.

For instance:

which rsync
/usr/bin/rsync
scp /usr/bin/rsync user@remote:~/rsync
rsync -a --rsync-path=~/rsync source dest

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