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I RTFMed rsync to the bone, but I just cannot figure out what I'm doing wrong here. I'm trying to sync two folders across SSH. Folders are identical save for one file, as you can see here:

nick@rilmir-laptop:~$ ssh -i .ssh/rilmir_passless nick@rilmir ls -l /home/nick/foobar/ total 2540 -rwxrwxrwx 1 nick nick 427676 Jan 19 2008 P1010001.JPG -rwxrwxrwx 1 nick nick 431335 Jan 19 2008 P1010002.JPG -rwxrwxrwx 1 nick nick 432706 Jan 19 2008 P1010003.JPG -rwxrwxrwx 1 nick nick 431954 Jan 19 2008 P1010004.JPG -rwxrwxrwx 1 nick nick 420208 Jan 19 2008 P1010005-rilmir.JPG -rwxrwxrwx 1 nick nick 420208 Jan 19 2008 P1010005.JPG nick@rilmir-laptop:~$ ls -l /home/nick/foobar/ total 2540 -rw------- 1 nick nick 427676 Sij 19 2008 P1010001.JPG -rw------- 1 nick nick 431335 Sij 19 2008 P1010002.JPG -rw------- 1 nick nick 432706 Sij 19 2008 P1010003.JPG -rw------- 1 nick nick 431954 Sij 19 2008 P1010004.JPG -rw------- 1 nick nick 420208 Sij 19 2008 P1010005.JPG -rw------- 1 nick nick 420208 Sij 19 2008 P1010005-laptop.JPG

So, now I try rsyncing them, and what I get is the whole host directory, as if rsync did not connect to the remote.

nick@rilmir-laptop:~$ rsync -avz --dry-run -e "ssh -i .ssh/rilmir_passless nick@rilmir:/home/nick/foobar/" /home/nick/foobar/ sending incremental file list drwxrwxr-x 4,096 2014/08/27 20:00:08 . -rw------- 427,676 2008/01/19 15:13:12 P1010001.JPG -rw------- 431,335 2008/01/19 15:13:12 P1010002.JPG -rw------- 432,706 2008/01/19 15:13:12 P1010003.JPG -rw------- 431,954 2008/01/19 15:13:12 P1010004.JPG -rw------- 420,208 2008/01/19 15:13:12 P1010005-laptop.JPG -rw------- 420,208 2008/01/19 15:13:12 P1010005.JPG sent 138 bytes received 449 bytes 1,174.00 bytes/sec total size is 2,564,087 speedup is 4,368.12 (DRY RUN) nick@rilmir-laptop:~$

My google-fu has failed me, I just cannot figure out why this fails. Any ideas?

Edit:
Yes, I know this is dry run, that is on purpose while testing.

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  • rsync by default runs over ssh if you specify remote location as user@host:/path/to/dir, you shouldn't provide ssh command. Also you are running in dry-mode, that means that there will be no actual changes in work of rsync command. Commented Aug 27, 2014 at 18:27
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    I think the dry run is telling you it wants to make permissions changes to all the files - the a option is archive mode which preserves permissions. Commented Aug 27, 2014 at 18:27
  • You could try without appending slash on the source folder and/or target folder. I had this issue once, and having the target postfixed with a slash means sync into that folder, instead of actually sync that folder. Commented Dec 12, 2016 at 8:24

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Remove dry-run (it means to just "simulate"), as well as use a proper format for the ssh parameters.

rsync -avz -e "ssh -i .ssh/rilmir_passless" nick@rilmir:/home/nick/foobar/ /home/nick/foobar/

By the way, this brings the remote contents to the local side. You may want --delete to remove stuff that is on the dest but not on the source.

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  • I'm sure I tried that format for ssh parameters sometime during debugging, but I obviously didn't because now everything works. Thanks! Commented Aug 27, 2014 at 18:57
  • Ok, if it works, please make sure you accept the answer for future reference. Commented Aug 27, 2014 at 19:05

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