I am trying to rsync from one server to another. The servers have the same directory structure but I am having trouble getting the remotes server to properly recognize the path name on the remote when there is a space in it.
Here are the details
The local directory is
mnt/xlses/split/v2/name with space
The remote directory is
mnt/xlses/split/v2/name with space
I have tried everything I can find the latest attempt was
rsync --size-only -avzPe ssh /mnt/xlses/split/v2/name\ with\ space/ root@myserver.com:/mnt/xlses/split/v2/"name with space"
when that runs the first thing it reports is that it is creating a new directory
I interrupt it and see that there is a new directory
mnt/xlses/split/v2/name
all of my files are in that directory
I was expecting them to be in
mnt/xlses/split/v2/name with space
Best Answer
Try
I took off the trailing slash
/from the source directory path. This will makersynccopy the directory and all its contents, which meansrsyncwill worry about getting the name correct on the remote host (which it will) instead of you.