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rsync would be the fastest of the lot, plus it does file permissions as well.

• acdha 5y ago
  sftp is often faster since it starts copying immediately and hides latency more effectively and both sftp and scp copy permissions if you ask them to: -p Preserves modification times, access times, and modes from the original files transferred.
  • remram 5y ago
    Wouldn't `rsync --ignore-existing` have similar latency from sftp then? It will be slower than rsync without the option, but not slower than sftp.
  • suifbwish 5y ago
    rsync accepts pipes which means you can run end to end compression and decompression automatically during the transfer. Processes can also be parallelized. Most of the time when I see someone claiming rsync does not suit their purpose it ends up being that they aren’t confident in using it safely. Most of the time I never use anything else except the -av flag