How To Use a PEM File With rsync

Author: erics, January 10th, 2020

Use the -e option like so:

rsync -e "ssh -i secret.pem" {sourcespec} {targetspec}

1	rsync -e "ssh -i secret.pem" {sourcespec} {targetspec}

How To Convert An RSA Private Key to PEM Format

Author: erics, January 10th, 2020

openssl rsa -in ~/.ssh/id_rsa -out ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pem

1	openssl rsa -in ~/.ssh/id_rsa -out ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pem