Remote Bulk File Transfer Methods

There are many ways to copy a set of files from one place to another.

$ rsync -avP /path/to/directory user@remote:/path/to/location

$ rsync -avP user@remote:/path/to/directory /path/to/location

$ tar -cz -C /path/to/location directory | ssh user@remote 'cat > /path/to/backup.tar.gz'

$ ssh user@remote 'tar -cz -C /path/to/location directory' > /path/to/backup.tar.gz