I store a lot of data in SQLite databases on remote servers, and I often want to copy them to my local machine for analysis or backup. When I’m starting a new project and the database is near-empty, this is a simple rsync operation: $ rsync --progress username@server:my_remote_database.db my_local_database.db As the project matures and the database grows, this gets slower and less reliable. Downloading a 250MB database from my web server takes about a minute over my home Internet connection, and...