Take the tour ×  I'm transfering the files from Linux to Windows
7 via a mounted share (the share is mounted from Windows on
Linux).. I'm copying lots of data (i.e. nearly a TB) from the
old to the new machine within my LAN. I'm unfortunate enough
already that I only have 100MBit. Naturally I blindly used rsync
but already wondered after a day why it feels so slow. Enabling
the progress meter showed my a transfer rate of about 2MB/s .
So I took a reasonable big file (800MB) and tracked the transfer
timing (1):  cp : 05:33 scp (2): 06:33 rsync : 21:51  1) I
deleted the files between each run 2) scp via localhost to the
same Linux machine directly onto the share; completely useless
but provided a progress meter  The tests were as simple as
(cp|scp|rsync) <source> <destination>  No special arguments
except host/port for scp. I even tried the -W switch for rsync
but cancelled after ten minutes. rsync is 3.0.3 running on
Lenny. To be able to interrupt the copy process anytime and
resume lead me to rsync, but now