rsync - Oct 2006 - non-existing parent directories

hello,

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.

the errors i get is...
rsync: mkdir "/path/to/non-existing/directory'," failed: No such
file or
directory (2)
rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at main.c(381)
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (8 bytes received so far) [sender]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(359)

thanks

-- 
Darin Perusich
Unix Systems Administrator
Cognigen Corporation
395 Youngs Rd.
Williamsville, NY 14221
darinper@cognigencorp.com

On 10/19/06, Darin Perusich <Darin.Perusich@cognigencorp.com>
wrote:
> 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".

Matt