How to fix rsync: getcwd(): No such file or directory (2)

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Hi,
I am running the following for javaapp to replicate files between two servers behind AWS ELB:

# /usr/bin/rsync --dry-run -v -az -H --delete --numeric-ids --exclude=cache/staic --exclude=.well-known/ /var/snap/lxd/common/mntns/var/snap/lxd/common/lxd/storage-pools/zfs/containers/prod/rootfs/app/ root@ec-2.www-2:/var/snap/lxd/common/mntns/var/snap/lxd/common/lxd/storage-pools/zfs/containers/prod/rootfs/app

But keep getting:

rsync: getcwd(): No such file or directory (2)
rsync error: errors selecting input/output files, dirs (code 3) at util.c(1221) [Receiver=3.1.3]

What does it means? How do I fix it? Both are Ubuntu servers.

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You must be in source directory when ran the rsync and either that dir was part of container or some other process. In other cases $PWD wasn’t updated by shell. What you need to do is get out of the following folder:

You can do that by typing any one of the following command:

cd
cd /tmp
echo "$PWD"

Then run the command again:

# /usr/bin/rsync --dry-run -v -az -H --delete --numeric-ids \
--exclude=cache/staic --exclude=.well-known/ \
/var/snap/lxd/common/mntns/var/snap/lxd/common/lxd/storage-pools/zfs/containers/prod/rootfs/app/ \
root@ec-2.www-2:/var/snap/lxd/common/mntns/var/snap/lxd/common/lxd/storage-pools/zfs/containers/prod/rootfs/app

It should work now.