Copying mass amounts of data over a network with bash, rsync

rsync -ave ssh srcpath user@host:/dstpath

or you could even tar over ssh for super-fast synching and no file list delay by doing a:

tar -cf - /srcpath | ssh -c blowfish-cbc user@host '(cd /dstpath; tar xf -)'

Ref: http://corneliusroot.blogspot.com/2006/12/copying-mass-amounts-of-data-over.html