rsync error: errors selecting input/output files, dirs (code 3) at main.c(323)
 

I'm trying to rsync a file to a remote server. I have done this before to this specific server, not sure if I forgot the right command of if there is something else going on. This is my rsync command:

sudo rsync -ae ssh user@remoteServer:/kunden/homepages/40/d205309670/htdocs/RetroCatalogs "/Volumes/SystemHD/Retrospect Catalogs/Weekly Catalog [088]"

I get:

ERROR: destination must be a directory when copying more than 1 file
rsync error: errors selecting input/output files, dirs (code 3) at main.c(323)

What is going on?

Thanks...

I tried this also:
sudo rsync -avz -e ssh user@remoteServer:/kunden/homepages/40/d205309670/htdocs/RetroCatalogs/ /Volumes/SystemHD/Retrospect?Catalogs/Weekly?Catalog?[088]

and got this:
receiving file list ... done
mkdir "/Volumes/SystemHD/Retrospect?Catalogs/Weekly?Catalog?[088]" failed: No such file or directory
rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at main.c(334)

any comments? thanks

the correct format is:

rsync -avz -e ssh rsync@remote.acme.com:/home/rsync/out/ /home/rsync/from_remote

I was wrong in that, but then I couldn't escape the spaces so I had to rename the source files and directory. This is not a solution. How do I escape the spaces I already tried " ", \, \\\, ?.

thanks

the trick is using single quotes: '/Volumes/SystemHD/Retrospect Catalogs/Weekly Catalog [088]' and it worked fine. thanks

Sorry about the necro, but this thread is still top result for this error.

This error will also occur if you are calling rsync from within a directory that does not exist.

For example, if you cd into an external disk, then force unmount it, you cannot call rsync from that directory. cd to a directory which exists and rsync will run as expected.