I have such directories structure on server 1:

  • data
    • company1
      • unique_folder1
      • other_folder
      • ...
    • company2
      • unique_folder1
      • ...
    • ...

And I want duplicate this folder structure on server 2, but copy only directories/subdirectories of unique_folder1. I.e. as result must be:

  • data
    • company1
      • unique_folder1
    • company2
      • unique_folder1
    • ...

I know that rsync is very good for this. I've tried 'include/exclude' options without success.

E.g. I've tried:

rsync -avzn --list-only --include '*/unique_folder1/**' --exclude '*' -e ssh user@server.com:/path/to/old/data/ /path/to/new/data/

But, as result, I don't see any files/directories:

receiving file list ... done
sent 43 bytes  received 21 bytes  42.67 bytes/sec
total size is 0  speedup is 0.00 (DRY RUN)

What's wrong? Ideas?

Additional information: I have sudo access to both servers. One idea I have - is to use find command and cpio together to copy to new directory with content I need and after that use Rsync. But this is very slow, there are a lot of files, etc.

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