linux - Rsync to Amazon Ec2 Instance

Question

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/* root@ec2-XX-XXX-XXX-XXX.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com:/var/www/html/

I also tried

rsync -avz ~/Sites/mysite/* -e "ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub" root@ec2-XX-XXX-XXX-XXX.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com:/var/www/html/

Thanks,

Answer 1

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/*  
       root@ec2-XX-XXX-XXX-XXX.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com:/var/www/html/

That seemed to do the trick.