Rclone always copies contents separately?

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1

i have the following structure:

/source/
/source/file_a
/source/a_dir/file_b
/source/b_dir/file_c

i am testing the following command:

find /home/user/testing/source/ -maxdepth 1 ! -type l -print0 | xargs -I {} -0 rclone --ask-password=false --no-traverse --ignore-existing --transfers=6 copy {} amazon:testing/destination/

and I end up with:
/destination/file_a
/destination/file_b
/destination/file_c

when what I want is

/destination/file_a
/destination/a_dir
/destination/b_dir

any advice on what I am doing wrong?

2

You need to include the directory on the destination to get the behaviour you want.

However if you use -files-from you’ll get what you want, with the added bonus of it working faster

something like

cd /home/user/testing/source/
find . -maxdepth 1 ! -type | sed 's,^\./,,' > /tmp/files-from-list
rclone --ask-password=false --ignore-existing --transfers=6 --files-from /tmp/files-from-list copy /home/user/testing/source/ amazon:testing/destination/

(note that --files-from implies --no-traverse)

3

looks good. i will definitely use --files-from thanks