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I have two RHEL 7 servers.

On my Source I have the following directories

/sourcestuff/testresync
/sourcestuff/testresync/incl1
/sourcestuff/testresync/incl1/test1.txt
/sourcestuff/testresync/incl2
/sourcestuff/testresync/incl2/test2.txt
/sourcestuff/testresync/excl3
/sourcestuff/testresync/excl3/test2.txt
/sourcestuff/testresync/excl4
/sourcestuff/testresync/excl4/test2.txt

On my Destination I have the following directories

/destinationstuff/testresync
/destinationstuff/testresync/incl1
/destinationstuff/testresync/incl2
/destinationstuff/testresync/excl3
/destinationstuff/testresync/excl4

What I am trying to do is copy the data from my Source to my Destination and exclude the /sourcestuff/testresync/excl3 and /sourcestuff/testresync/excl4 from the Source

What I have tried

rsync -av --relative /sourcestuff/testrsync/./ --exclude '/sourcestuff/testrsync/excl3/' --exclude '/sourcestuff/testrsync/excl4/' user@SERVERIP:/destinationstuff/testrsync

I have read the documentation that the -exclude option relies on the source but everything I try the excl3 and excl4 data still gets transferred.

I have also tried the other way does not work

What I want my Destination to look like:

/destinationstuff/testresync
/destinationstuff/testresync/incl1
/destinationstuff/testresync/incl1/test1.txt  
/destinationstuff/testresync/incl2
/destinationstuff/testresync/incl2/test2.txt
/destinationstuff/testresync/excl3
/destinationstuff/testresync/excl4

I have a linux (centos 7) ec2-instance that has been running for a while now.

I added a elastic IP to the server but for some reason cannot connect on port 22

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/elastic-ip-addresses-eip.html#using-instance-addressing-eips-allocating

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/elastic-ip-addresses-eip.html#using-instance-addressing-eips-associating

Following the links above I am able to see the new Elastic IP I added, however when changing to a security group that has 22 tcp 0.0.0.0/0 i cannot ssh.

What am I missing?

I have two users on my server, user1 and ec2-user

I have added user1 to the ec2-user group

If I change the permission to 775 on the /home/ec2-user directory as user1 I can write files.

find /home/ec2-user/ -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \

However doing the breaks my ppk access with ec2-user

Even if I change the permission back on the /home/ec2-user/.ssh/ directory to 755 my access is still broken

What am I missing?