How to force rsync to create destination folder

Question

Example:

rsync /tmp/fol1/fol2/fol3/foln user@addr:/tmp/fol1/fol2/fol3/foln

My main problem is folder /tmp/fol1 doesn\'t exist on remote machine

Answer 1

I ran into same issue today and found the solution here.

You can either do:

rsync -avR foo/bar/baz.c remote:/tmp/

or:

rsync -avR somedir/./foo/bar/baz.c remote:/tmp/

to create /tmp/foo/bar/baz.c in the remote machine.

see --relative/-R section of man rsync for more details.