> Would you mind explaining why rsync is a better solution?
rsync basically chunks the files and sends the missing (or differing) chunks over scp, leaves the files in the destination directory if something fails, it is more or less an automated tool that already does what the GP is talking about.
rsync basically chunks the files and sends the missing (or differing) chunks over scp, leaves the files in the destination directory if something fails, it is more or less an automated tool that already does what the GP is talking about.