With rsync, you can replicate data between any source and destination, but at least one must be locally accessible to the client instance.
To migrate existing files to Amazon FSx from a Linux-based Amazon EC2 instance
The following procedure configures your FSx for OpenZFS destination volume as a local NFS mount on a Linux-based EC2 instance and uses the rsync command to synchronize data from your source file system or existing directory on your EC2 instance.
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Launch a Linux-based Amazon EC2 instance or connect to an existing EC2 instance that contains your desired source data.
Mount your destination FSx for OpenZFS source volume; for more information, see Step 2: Mount your file system from an Amazon EC2 instance. The following step assumes that you have mounted your desired destination on your OpenZFS volume to
/fsx/destination_pathon your EC2 instance.-
Run rsync from this EC2 instance to synchronize data from your source. If your source data is already on the EC2 instance, use the following command:
sudo rsync -avR /source_path/fsx/destination_pathNote
You can also run rsync with GNU parallel to maximize performance. The following instructions apply for EC2 Linux instances running Amazon Linux 2:.
sudo amazon-linux-extras install epel sudo yum install nload sysstat parallel -y sudo time find -L /source_path-type f | parallel rsync -avR {} /fsx/destination_pathIf your source is a directory on a remote host, use the following command:
sudo rsync -avRusername@source_dns_or_ip:/source_path/fsx/destination_pathUse the following variant if you need to use .pem key-based authentication:
sudo rsync -avR -e "ssh -i key.pem"username@source_dns_or_ip:/source_path/fsx/destination_path
