https://www.linuxtechi.com/rsync-command-examples-linux/

Copy the directory structure of “/home/myhome” from local machine to remote machine (192.168.10.10) under /opt folder.

root@gateway ~]# rsync -av -f"+ */" -f"- *" /home/myhome root@192.168.10.10:/opt/
root@192.168.10.10's password:
building file list ... done
………………………………………………
myhome/

sent 43 bytes  received 19 bytes  17.71 bytes/sec
total size is 0  speedup is 0.00

if I were transferring the files as user labo one method I could use is:

rsync –azv  ssh labo@srv1:/opt/webspshere/  /opt/websphere

Sync and remove on target files not present on source

rsync –azvh --delete --progress /opt/webspshere/  srv1:/opt/websphere >> logfile 2>&1

Include and Exclude files during synchronization with rsync,copy the files of type pdf and rpm and exclude png file types.

[root@gateway ~]# rsync -avz -e ssh --include '*.pdf *.rpm' --exclude '*.png' /home/aaa/techi root@192.168.1.29:/opt

View the difference in files & directories between source and destination

[root@gateway ~]# rsync -avzi /home/pkumar/techi root@192.168.1.29:/opt
root@192.168.1.29's password:
sending incremental file list
.d..t...... techi/
<f.st...... techi/projects.txt