diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 0f55506b9859a322b81f52f03f4839dcbb78aa95..f80437065d6e89b7a5f74fc86f73b253f547fdf7 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ job1:
    - EXTERNAL_SHARE_RESULTS_DIR=$EXTERNAL_SHARE_DIR/$git_branch/$git_head
    - echo $NFS_TEST_RESULTS_DIR
    - echo $EXTERNAL_SHARE_RESULTS_DIR
-   - sshpass -p "$OAI_PASS" rsync $OPENAIR_DIR/cmake_targets/autotests/log/ $OAI_USER@localhost:$NFS_TEST_RESULTS_DIR
-   - sshpass -p "$OAI_PASS" rsync $OPENAIR_DIR/cmake_targets/autotests/log/ $OAI_USER@localhost:$EXTERNAL_SHARE_DIR
+   - sshpass -p "$OAI_PASS" rsync -avz -e "ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no " $OPENAIR_DIR/cmake_targets/autotests/log/ $OAI_USER@localhost:$NFS_TEST_RESULTS_DIR
+   - sshpass -p "$OAI_PASS" rsync -avz -e "ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no " $OPENAIR_DIR/cmake_targets/autotests/log/ $OAI_USER@localhost:$EXTERNAL_SHARE_DIR
    #$OPENAIR_DIR/cmake_targets/autotests/run_exec_lte-softmodem_tests.py -r $OAI_EXTRA_ARGS >& $OPENAIR_DIR/cmake_targets/autotests/python_autotest.log
    #mv $OPENAIR_DIR/cmake_targets/autotests/python_autotest.log $OPENAIR_DIR/cmake_targets/autotests/log/python_autotest.log