The most common way to use rsync is probably as such: rsync -avr user@<source>:<source_dir> <dest_dir> Resulting in 30-35MB/s depending on file sizes This can be improved by using a more efficient, less secure encryption algorithm, disabling compression and telling the SSH client to disable some unneeded features that slow things down. With the settings below I have achieved 100MB/s (at work between VMs) and over 300MB/s at home between SSD drives.
