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...s directed to copy a directory tree into another machine and the target directory does not exist then rsync will not create the required path and instead issues this message: mkdir failure: No such file or directory example: ======= rsync -av --progress -e "ssh -1" /etc/ $1:/altsync/$HOSTNAME/etc This example is being called from a bash shell. $1 is the name of the target machine and the idea is that several machines will be backed up to the chosen target with the following directory structure: /altsync/hostname1/etc /altsync/hostname2/etc /altsync/hostname3/etc If the ta...