How to re download pem file from ec2

Once FileZilla is connected to your server instance, You can upload files to your instance. The local site is your local system files. The remote site is your server instance. To upload files choose the directory on your server where you want your files to be uploaded.

Now select the file to be uploaded and right-click on it. Click the upload file option. Your file starts uploading to the directory you selected.

In the similar way, right click on the file you want to download and click on Download as shown below,. To download the files owned by the root, open SSH session into the machine and change the owner of that file to the normal user using the following command.

Visit our AWS Hub for more tutorials and updates. MuleSoft Contribute Newsletter. Viewed 66k times. I made a key pair pem file called "test. I made a new instance with this pem file. How can I re-download the "test. Canna Canna 3, 4 4 gold badges 25 25 silver badges 33 33 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. So what is alternative way of that?

Follow this link. Best you can do is to download it and also store it at S3, of course in a private access bucket. You can recover you machine even if you lost pem file, there is a way: 1.

Goto EBS , detach the root volume of old machine. Attach this volume back to old instance. Vishal Vishwakarma Vishal Vishwakarma 79 6 6 bronze badges. This is a good work around but your answer would be better if you made it clear that this is just creating a new key-pair and deploying it on the volume where the key was lost.

Qamar Qamar 3. Improve this question. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. This is why when you spin up a server you click a checkbox saying you realize if you lose a key your access to the instance isn't their problem — Michael Bailey.

It is very important to preserve and protect your key pairs to prevent problems like these. Matt Houser Matt Houser 9, 1 1 gold badge 26 26 silver badges 25 25 bronze badges.

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