How to recursively copy a directory through gio

Question

I want to copy some directories off a remote SMB server. I tried to do it with gio copy, but it replies, that it cannot copy directiories recursively.

How can one make it so it will?

Answer 1

There isn't a way to do true recursion with gio copy, but you can come close by doing

$ gio copy <directory>/* smb://server/sharename/path/to/existing/directory