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This question has been asked here and there before, but I simply cannot find a solution that works for me.

I am just starting to learn how to use rsync, as I am desperately trying to copy files from one server to another.
I am using the following command:

rsync -avzP username@ip.address:/public_html/abc/ /www/abc

After entering the other server's password, I then get the following message:

stdin: is not a tty 

receiving incremental file list 

rsync: change_dir "/public_html/abc" failed: No such file or directory (2) 

sent 8 bytes 

received 101 bytes  8.72 bytes/sec total size is 0  speedup is 0.00

rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1655) [Receiver=3.1.1]

However, directory abc does exist, I can browse it etc. There are no spaces in the name.

Any ideas what this may be caused by? I'm pulling my hair out!

You need to add the connection details, eg. for SSH use --rsh=ssh.

Try:

rsync -avzP --rsh=ssh username@ip.address:/public_html/abc/ /www/abc

And make sure the paths are correct. Are these paths absolute or relative: /public_html/abc/, /www/abc?

The error comes from the fact that there is no /public_html/abc directory on the remote system.

According to comments, the source directory is actually located in the user's home directory, not at the path /public_html.

Therefore:

rsync -avzP username@ip.address:public_html/abc/ /www/abc

Here, we access public_html/abc in the user's home directory rather than in the root of the filesystem.

The warning stdin: is not a tty comes from the fact that your shell's startup file for interactive shells is being called on the remote host (your ~/.bashrc file, if you are using bash), and you are doing something in it that requires a terminal.

You may edit the shell startup file on the remote machine and insert the following close to the top:

[ ! -t 0 ] && return

This would stop the execution of e.g. ~/.bashrc at that point for all shell sessions whose standard input streams are not attached to a terminal.

First make sure the ssh user have a privilege write to this folder,

/www/abc 

the run this command below

rsync -avzP -e ssh /www/abc user@destinationFolderPath

Note

• -v "verbose" (-vv will provide more detailed information)


• -e "ssh options" - specify the ssh as remote shell


• -a - "archive mode" - it preserves permissions (owners, groups), times, symbolic links, and devices


• -z compress file data during transfer


• -P show progress during transfer

CMIIW