I'm posting with reference to http://www.mail-archive.com/rsync@lists.samba.org/msg17343.html (Couldn't find a way to post directly to thread).
<QUOTE> is there a way for rsync to create non-existing parent directories when syncing files to a destination? something similar to 'mkdir -p non-existing/directory'. i'm doing 'rsync -r /path/to/source /path/to/non-existing/directory', and the 'non-existing/directory' location doesn't exist. Rsync will only create the top-level destination directory, not its parents. So just run an appropriate "mkdir -p" command before rsync. If this needs to happen on the remote host of a transfer over SSH, pass rsync something like --rsync-path="mkdir -p /path/to/non-existing/directory && rsync". <UNQUOTE> Isn't the '-r' (--relative) option designed to do exactly that? Here's my attempt to use a/m option. It created entire directory structure at dest: sh-3.1# ls /mnt/removable/root ls: /mnt/removable/root: No such file or directory sh-3.1# ls -R /root/temp/joe/ /root/temp/joe/: dfg file1 file2 /root/temp/joe/dfg: sh-3.1# ls -R /mnt/removable/root ls: /mnt/removable/root: No such file or directory sh-3.1# rsync -auvR /root/temp/joe /mnt/removable building file list ... done /root/ /root/temp/ /root/temp/joe/ /root/temp/joe/file1 /root/temp/joe/file2 /root/temp/joe/dfg/ sent 4674504 bytes received 88 bytes 9349184.00 bytes/sec total size is 4673690 speedup is 1.00 sh-3.1# ls -R /mnt/removable/root /mnt/removable/root: temp /mnt/removable/root/temp: joe /mnt/removable/root/temp/joe: dfg file1 file2 /mnt/removable/root/temp/joe/dfg: Amit -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html