rsync with compress option

This is the fastest way to copy data from one server to another.It will compress the data and transfer .

1) rsync -avxH ~/source_dir/  username@remote_host:destination_directory

This will sync data under source_dir to destination_directory

2) rsync -avxH ~/source_dir  username@remote_host:destination_directory

This will create a directory source_dir under destination_directory and copy data under source_dir


In case of local server

rsync -avxH /source /destination