How to RSYNC a single file?

Question

Currently i only RSync-ing the Directories as like:

* * * * * rsync -avz /var/www/public_html/images root@:/var/www/public_html
         


        

Answer 1

Michael Place's answer works great if, relative to the root directory for both the source and target, all of the directories in the file's path already exist.

But what if you want to sync a file with this source path:

/source-root/a/b/file

to a file with the following target path:

/target-root/a/b/file

and the directories a and b don't exist?

You need to run an rsync command like the following:

rsync -r --include="/a/" --include="/a/b/" --include="/a/b/file" --exclude="*" [source] [target]