Don't make this hard on yourself. When you copy 1000 files it take WAY longer then 1 file of the same total size because each connection takes time. Just make an archive and upload that.
Make a tar or zip file and copy that over. Tons of info online on how to use this, or you can use the man pages.. man tar or man zip.
Quickly.
tar -czvf backup.tar.gz forum/ to compress
tar -xzvf backup.tar.gz forum/ to extract
Thanks for that.. I will do that next time!
Don't mix these up, or you can overwrite your data!
