How does `scp` differ from `rsync`?

Question

An article about setting up Ghost blogging says to use scp to copy from my local machine to a remote server:

scp -r ghost-0.3 root@*your-server-         


        

Answer 1

rysnc can be useful to run on slow and unreliable connections. So if your download aborts in the middle of a large file rysnc will be able to continue from where it left off when invoked again.

Use rsync -vP username@host:/path/to/file .

The -P option preserves partially downloaded files and also shows progress.

As usual check man rsync