Fast rsync over ssh
I have found a nice help for fast rsync transfers over ssh. You can reach 40MB/s on gigabit network, depends on disk speed, SSD are faster. rsync -aHAXxv –numeric-ids –delete –progress -e „ssh -T -c arcfour -o Compression=no -x“ user@<source>:<source_dir> <dest_dir> More details & source: https://gist.github.com/KartikTalwar/4393116