Hi,

I want to specify multiple remote directories but want to transfer them in a single command with one connection with remote server. This avoids entering passwords repeatedly and is also efficient.

e.g.

rsync -vrt --size-only --delete user@host:/home/user1/dir1 user@host:/home/user1/dir2 user@host:/home/user1/dir3 .... local_dir/

I want to transfer dir1, dir2 and dir3 using the same connection. The above command will establish 3 connections. Is there way to achieve this?

rsync -vrt --size-only --delete user@host:/home/user1/dir1,/home/user1/dir2,/home/user1/dir3  local_dir/

Why not rsync on the home directory directly?

rsync -vrt --size-only --delete user@host:/home/user1

because I need to sync specific directories dir1, dir2.. under user1/.

why dont you prefer scp command !

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Asking for that sake of curiosity , is there any special reason for choosing rsync , please
tell me that if any!

If you push the files from remote server, you just need one connection


ssh remote server

I'm not sure if the --delete option will work in this case

rsync has significant advantages over scp. What if each directory is 5 GB and the changes since last time you updated were only 1 KB ?

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No I don't want to ssh to remote server. This will not work.

Thanks for your explanation Sardare :-)