Rsync + not copy empty dir

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"rsync" doesn't seem to synchronize create empty directories on the target_dir
( I have empty dir under "from_dir" directory ) , so why rsync not copy the the empty dir from "from_dir" to "target_dir" ?

rsync -WavH –progress /from_dir 176.23.4.1:/target_dir

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Works for me:

$ rsync --version | head -n 1
rsync  version 3.0.7  protocol version 30
$ mkdir src
$ mkdir dest
$ mkdir src/emptydir
$ mkdir src/fulldir
$ touch src/fulldir/file
$ rsync -WavH -progress src/ dest/
$ ls -lR dest
dest:
emptydir/  fulldir/

dest/emptydir:

dest/fulldir:
a

Please provide a demonstration of the erroneous behaviour you're seeing, in a similar form to this.

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I would use rsync as it means that if it is interrupted for any reason, then you can restart it easily with very little cost. And being rsync, it can even restart part way through a large file. As others mention, it can exclude files easily. The simplest way to preserve most things is to use the -a flag – ‘archive.’ So:

rsync -a source dest

Although UID/GID and symlinks are preserved by -a (see -lpgo), your question implies you might want a full copy of the filesystem information; and -a doesn't include hard-links, extended attributes, or ACLs (on Linux) or the above nor resource forks (on OS X.) Thus, for a robust copy of a filesystem, you'll need to include those flags:

rsync -aHAX source dest # Linux
rsync -aHE source dest  # OS X

The default cp will start again, though the -u flag will "copy only when the SOURCE file is newer than the destination file or when the destination file is missing". And the -a (archive) flag will be recursive, not recopy files if you have to restart and preserve permissions. So:

cp -au source dest

Linux – How to Show Total Progress in Rsync

There is now an official way to do this in rsync (version 3.1.0 protocol version 31, tested with Ubuntu Trusty 14.04).

#> ./rsync -a --info=progress2 /usr .
    305,002,533  80%   65.69MB/s    0:00:01  xfr#1653, ir-chk=1593/3594)

I tried with my /usr folder because I wanted this feature for transferring whole filesystems, and /usr seemed to be a good representative sample.

The --info=progress2 gives a nice overall percentage, even if it's just a partial value. In fact, my /usr folder is more than 6 gigs:

#> du -sh /usr
6,6G    /usr/

and rsync took a lot of time to scan it all. So almost all the time the percentage I've seen was about 90% completed, but nonetheless it's comforting to see that something is being copied :)

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