rsync - create all missing parent directories?

Question

I\'m looking for an rsync-like program which will create any missing parent directories on the remote side.

For example, if I have /top/a/b/c/d

Answer 1

--relative does not work for me since I had different setup. Maybe I just didn't understood how --relative works, but I found that the

ssh remote mkdir -p /top/a/b/c
rsync /top/a/b/c/d remote:/top/a/b/c

is easy to understand and does the job.