Rsync Issue (AWS EC2)

I have spent quite a bit of time trying to Rsync from a remote to a local machine but been having issues with finding the synced files apparently.

The command I entered is:

sync -avzhe "~/var/test2/*" -e "ssh -i /etc/nginx/WhatsDue.pem" ubuntu@ec2********.compute-1.amazonaws.com:/var/test/

The command seems to be running properly:

    receiving incremental file list
drwxr-xr-x          4.10K 2015/02/25 19:15:48 .
-rwxrwxrwx             11 2015/02/25 19:15:48 test222.txt

sent 20 bytes  received 66 bytes  34.40 bytes/sec
total size is 11  speedup is 0.13

However, when I go to the "~/var/test2/" folder, I can't find the test222.txt file there.

Can you please help?

Thanks!