Rsync to Amazon Ec2 Instance
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I have an EC2 instance running and I am able to SSH into it.
However, when I try to rsync, it gives me the error Permission denied (publickey).
The command I'm using is:
rsync -avL --progress -e ssh -i ~/mykeypair.pem ~/Sites/my_site/* [email protected]:/var/www/html/
I also tried
rsync -avz ~/Sites/mysite/* -e "ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub" [email protected]2.compute.amazonaws.com:/var/www/html/
Thanks,
Linux Solutions
Solution 1 - Linux
I just received that same error. I had been consistently able to ssh with:
ssh -i ~/path/mykeypair.pem \
ubuntu@ec2-XX-XXX-XXX-XXX.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com
But when using the longer rsync construction, it seemed to cause errors. I ended up encasing the ssh statement in quotations and using the full path to the key. In your example:
rsync -avL --progress -e "ssh -i /path/to/mykeypair.pem" \
~/Sites/my_site/* \
[email protected]2.compute.amazonaws.com:/var/www/html/
That seemed to do the trick.
Solution 2 - Linux
Below is what I used and it worked. Source was ec2 and target was home machine.
sudo rsync -azvv -e "ssh -i /home/ubuntu/key-to-ec2.pem" ec2-user@xx.xxx.xxx.xx:/home/ec2-user/source/ /home/ubuntu/target/
Solution 3 - Linux
After suffering a little bit, I believe this will help:
I am using the below command and it has worked without problems:
rsync -av --progress -e ssh /folder1/folder2/* [email protected]:/folder1/folder2
First consideration:
Use the --rsync-path
I prefer in a shell script:
#!/bin/bash
RSYNC = /usr/bin/rsync
$RSYNC [options] [source] [destination]
Second consideration:
Create a publick key by command below for communication between the servers in question. She will not be the same as provided by Amazon.
ssh-keygen -t rsa
Do not forget to enable permission on the target server in /etc/ssh/sshd_config (UBUNTU and CENTOS).
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6963740/sync-files-from-one-ec2-instance-to-another
http://ask-leo.com/how_can_i_automate_an_sftp_transfer_between_two_servers.html
Use -v option for verbose and better identify errors.
Third Consideration
If both servers are on EC2 make a restraint by security group
In the security group Server Destination:
inbound: Source / TCP port 22 / IP Security (or group name) of the source server
Solution 4 - Linux
copy file from local machine to server
rsync -avz -e "ssh -i /path/to/key.pem" /path/to/file.txt <username>@<ip/domain>:/path/to/directory/
copy file from server to local machine
rsync -avz -e "ssh -i /path/to/key.pem" <username>@<ip/domain>:/path/to/directory/file.txt /path/to/directory/
Solution 5 - Linux
This worked for me:
nohup rsync -zravu --partial --progress -e "ssh -i xxxx.pem" [email protected]:/mnt/data /mnt2/ &