Push folders with rsync on a server

Question

I have Ubuntu installed on a VM on my PC. I need to copy some folder ( recursively ) from Ubuntu to the server.

If I want to download the folders from the server to my VM machine I did this:

rsync -av [email protected]:/home/my_folder ./

my_folder contains other folders and files. What if I want to upload a folder to the server ?

Hope is clear

Answer 1

You'd just need to switch the arguments (which represent source and destination) like

rsync -av ./newfolder [email protected]:/home/my_folder

Have a look at man rsync which explains that a trailing slash after newfolder would only transfer the contents of said directory - in this case, you might want to change the upload destination to .../my_folder/newfolder.