Niki Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > rsync -av /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf destinationfolder/ > > I get something like : > > destinationfolder/httpd.conf This is normal because your copying a file not a tree > > QUESTION (at last) : is there a way rsync can somehow add the full file > path, so the end result is more like : Copy the tree and use something like includes or excludes or even the files-from option to specifically include the files you want to copy. e.g. [natea at us-cfe002:/etc]$ cat /tmp/files.txt /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf [natea at us-cfe002:/etc]$ [natea at us-cfe002:/etc]$ rsync -av --files-from=/tmp/files.txt / /tmp/ building file list ... done etc/ etc/httpd/ etc/httpd/conf/ etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf sent 34853 bytes received 40 bytes 69786.00 bytes/sec total size is 34704 speedup is 0.99 [natea at us-cfe002:/etc]$ ls -ltr /tmp/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 natea natea 34704 Nov 18 2007 /tmp/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf use the -n option with rsync for testing, to have it only show you what it would do rather than doing it. nate