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I have written the following script. It creates a new directory formatted like this Year,Month,Day. What it suppose to do is copy a file to the newly created directory, the script makes the directory on the remote server, but copies the file to the directory not the subdirectory which is suppose to be the 2017-08-18, and so on.

[root@hostname ~]# cat ontape.sh

#!/bin/bash

#

sshpass -p 'PASSWORD' ssh root@hostname mkdir -p /home/mybackup/ontape/$(date +%Y-%m-%d)

sshpass -p 'PASSWORD' ssh root@hostname mkdir -p /mybackup/ontape_tmp_backup/$(date +%Y-%m-%d)

for server in $(cat servers.txt)

do

   sshpass -p 'PASSWORD' scp /dbbackup/backupdb/ontape/fullsize/* $server

done

Also, the /root/servers.txt file has the following code.

[root@hostname ~]# cat servers.txt

root@hostname:/mybackup/ontape_tmp_backup

root@hostname:/home/mybackup/ontape

You should change your this line and add the directory you created to it as following.

sshpass -p 'PASSWORD' scp /dbbackup/backupdb/ontape/fullsize/* "$server/$(date +%Y-%m-%d)"

You also can use rsync instead as it will create last level directory in destination path if it doesn't exist and no need mkdir there as extra command.

sshpass -p 'PASSWORD' rsync /dbbackup/backupdb/ontape/fullsize/* "$server/$(date +%Y-%m-%d)"

this will create directory from "$(date +%Y-%m-%d)" if it doesn't exist in destination path.

so in your script as you're going to copy to 2 destinations paths and you are creating directories first, you could done it with only below script.

for dest in dest1 dest2; do 

    sshpass -p 'PASSWORD' rsync -av /path/to/src/* "$dest/$(date +%Y-%m-%d)"

done

Please note that using this way of passing your password is bad practice as it visible to other users has access to your system or can watch via ps -aux command, instead you can set a publikKey authentication.

ssh-keygen -t rsa

ssh-copy-id USER@HOST