I'd say it's the other way around: I like rsync, not the least because of the possibility to optionally resume partial transfers, which scp doesn't offer. And

I'd say it's the other way around: I like rsync, not the least because of the possibility to optionally resume partial transfers, which scp doesn't offer. And while I use scp rather often, mostly for single file transfers, I still dislike that cp -a is scp -p instead. But my finger memory learned that a long time ago.