Whats faster? Copy via nfs-mount or via scp?
linux, mount, nfs, scp, unix
Solution
You can always use `rsync`, it can show you the progress (with `--progress` option) and is more lightweight than `scp`.
You can enable compression manually with `-z`.
Problem
we have a network of several machines and we want to distribute a big directory (ca. 10 GB) to every box. It is located on an nfs-server and is mounted on all machines, so first approach is to just use normal `cp` to copy the files from the mounted to a local directory. This is easy, but unfortunately there is no progress bar, because it is not intended to use it for network copies (or is it?). Using `scp` is intended for copying across network, but it may encrypt everything and therefore be slow. Should one be faster, and if so, which: `cp` on nfs-mount or `scp`?