I am going to move my website to a new server.
I need to copy the /var/www
directory to the new server.
Should I use SCP or RSYNC ?
You can use either SCP or Rsync, they will both copy files for what you need.
For the following example, assume the following:
SCP
scp -r jcitizen@www1.example.com:/var/www /var/www
RSYNC
rsync -avzh jcitizen@www1.example.com:/var/www /var/www