How to copy entire folder from Amazon EC2 Linux instance to local Linux machine?

Question

I connected to Amazon's linux instance from ssh using private key. I am trying to copy entire folder from that instance to my local linux machine .

Can anyone tell me the correct scp command to do this?

Or do I need something more than scp? Both machines are Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Solution 1

Call scp from client machine with recursive option:

scp -r user@remote:src_directory dst_directory

Solution 2

another way to do it is

scp -i "insert key file here" -r "insert ec2 instance here" "your local directory"

One mistake I made was scp -ir. The key has to be after the -i, and the -r after that.

so

scp -i amazon.pem -r ec2-user@ec2-##-##-##:/source/dir /destination/dir

Solution 3

scp -i {key path} -r [email protected]:{remote path} {local path}

Solution 4

For EC2 ubuntu

go to your .pem file directory

scp -i "yourkey.pem" -r ec2user@DNS_name:/home/ubuntu/foldername ~/Desktop/localfolder

Solution 5

You could even use rsync.

rsync -aPSHiv remote:directory .

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Comments

[Mansoor Elahi]

this solution helped actually i was trying to copy data without using private key.. scp -i *.pem -r user@remote:src_directory dst_directory

[Frits]

Please try to avoid just dumping code as an answer and try to explain what it does and why. Your code might not be obvious for people who do not have the relevant coding experience.

[J. Chomel]

yes, While this code snippet may solve the question, including an explanation really helps to improve the quality of your post. Remember that you are answering the question for readers in the future, and those people might not know the reasons for your code suggestion.

[Silver]

Finally, an answer that includes the -i part. This worked, thanks!

[Nicolás Rodríguez]

I had a error when i tried to do this: Load key "key.pem": bad permissions. I've solved by typing chmod 400 key.em.