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

Answer 1

This worked for me:

nohup rsync -zravu --partial --progress  -e "ssh -i xxxx.pem" ubuntu@xx.xx.xx.xx:/mnt/data   /mnt2/ &