# Pastebin d9up3Q0Y
lbdumps@lemmy:~$ mkdir x
lbdumps@lemmy:~$ mkdir y
lbdumps@lemmy:~$ chmod 700 x
lbdumps@lemmy:~$ ls -l
total 16
drwx------ 2 lbdumps      lbdumps      4096 May 24 08:33 x
drwxrwxr-x 2 lbdumps      lbdumps      4096 May 24 08:33 y
lbdumps@lemmy:~$ touch x/file
lbdumps@lemmy:~$ ls -l x
total 0
-rw-rw-r-- 1 lbdumps lbdumps 0 May 24 08:33 file
lbdumps@lemmy:~$ rsync -a x/ y/
lbdumps@lemmy:~$ ls -l
total 16
drwx------ 2 lbdumps      lbdumps      4096 May 24 08:33 x
drwx------ 2 lbdumps      lbdumps      4096 May 24 08:33 y