Migrate large amount of small files

[Francisco Reyes]

Ckcheng writes:

> 1. rsync
> 2. tar ..

If this is a migration I find that tar to the local machine, copy over, 
restore, then rsync are likely the best options.

In my experience copying lots of small files is going to take a long time, 
no matter which method you use.

>From all the combinations I have tried in the past tar first then rsync 
worked best for me.