sftp entire directory (directory having many directories recursively)

Question

When I am trying to sftp the directory structure ( Here the directory is having other directories recursively). I am not getting all the files.

Can you please suggest me the way to do this?

Solution

Another way to do this ( and it skips over files that are already copied )

rsync -av your/local/dir/ user@remotehost:/your/remote/dir/

Comments

[Amatya]

Thanks a lot!! After hours of trying stuff that didn't work, your method worked for me. phew!! thx!

[Admin]

10 years down the line, but the question refers to 'getting' and this command is more like 'put'. Reverse the arguments if you want to copy from the remote to the local.