On: SSH tricks

[msmith]

I'm not sure how it compares in performance, but I've always used scp -r for this:

   $ scp -r remote foo /where/to/unpack

[loeg → msmith]

scp has some end-to-end latency for each file transferred. This means that for lots of small files, a single tar file stream is much quicker than 'scp -r'.