rsync - Jul 2008 - -R option -> source directories from remote

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Hi Developers,

i  have a problem with syncing relative paths (-r) on remote host.

Using relative paths the local way does function perfectly, because you
are able to change the directory before synchronisation.

Example:

cd pathToRelativePaths;
rsync -R.... -e "....." localpath1/ localpath2/ user@host:/destpath

That works because you are able to switch to the directory where the
"relative paths" localpath1 localpath2 are present.

Problem:

?
rsync -R.... -e "...." user@remotehost::localpath1/ ::localpath2/
/localdestpath

In this case, i have no idea, how to switch to the "root path" on
"remotehost" to
to get the "relative" direcories because I'm at the local machine.
On remote I
certainly wind up on the users home directory which is not equal to the
"root path".

Hint: I can not use absolute paths !

Does anyone have an idea how to "change" to a directory on remote
maschine
to use relative paths (-R) ?

Thanks for your efforts.


Best Regards

Christoph






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On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 10:08:49AM +0200, christoph.m@freenet.de
wrote:
> Does anyone have an idea how to "change" to a directory on remote
maschine
> to use relative paths (-R) ?
Starting with 2.6.7 you can insert a dot dir into any source path to
indicate where the duplicating of directories starts:

rsync -R remotehost::mod/some/./path/1 ::mod/other/./dir/2 /dest/

See the --relative option in the manpage:

http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/rsync.html

..wayne..