copy files with folders

Question

The following scp is working as expected.

scp /home/admin/* root@ec2-50-112-212-73:/

But I need a command that will create the required folder structure on destination server if it does not already exist.

Update:

I can do it in 2 steps as shown below. I will like to know if there is any other way.

ssh root@ec2-50-112-212-73  " mkdir -p /home/admin/ "
scp  -r /home/admin/* root@ec2-50-112-212-73:/home/admin/

Answer 1

You might be better off using rsync:

rsync -av -R -f"+ */" -f"- *" /home/admin/* root@ec2-50-112-212-73:/

This will only create the directories on the other (ec2) side

Answer 2

scp -r /home/admin/ root@ec2-50-112-212-73:/home/admin/ will work, assuming you don't specifically want to copy just the non-dotfiles in /home/admin.