[ale] Copying all those files

[bjorn at sccs.swarthmore.edu (Bjorn Dittmer-Roche)]

On Tue, 11 May 2004, Jonathan Glass wrote:

> I personally prefer to use the following:
>
> rsync -a -v -e ssh host:/path/to/source/files /path/to/destination/files
>
> This will do a full rsync over ssh, and spit out the file names (-v) as
> they get transferred.

If speed is an issue, you can run an rsync server on one machine and
client on the other (see the man page to find out how). Obviously you only
want to do that if your network is secure, but I've found it to be the
fastest way to transfer files.

	bjorn