If you need to rsync those hidden directories or files starting with dot, do it something like below (note the trailing /) 1rsync -avz -e ssh --progress user@source-server:/somedirA/ somedirB/ See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9046749/rsync-not-synchronizing-htaccess-file

In this example, we want to sync example.com except 'example.com/temp_uploads' 1rsync -avz --exclude 'example.com/temp_uploads' example.com /var/www_backups NOTE: exclude files are always relative to current directory. to exclude multiple directories, just use an additional '--exclude' statement. details in …

1rsync -avz -e "ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null" \ 2--progress /var/www/html/example.com/docroot me@example.org:/var/www/html/example.org/

1rsync -Pav -e "ssh -i $HOME/.ssh/somekey" username@hostname:/from/dir/ /to/dir/