How to copy all files from host?

[Pink Guy]

My server is currently hosted with Asura Hosting and it's linux. I use WINSCP to add/get/edit files on my server. What I wanna ask is there any way I can get all my trunk files from my host to my desktop faster? it takes a whole lot of time to just drag-drop my trunk files to my desktop. Before I had a server with a different host, they have a command thing where you can transform your trunk folder into a zip file so I can just get that zip file from my host. So I wanna ask if you guys can help me I really need help ASAP.

[Brian]

Login to SSH and compress your rAthena folder first.

The compressed file will be smaller, so it will download faster.

To compress with zip:

zip -r rathena.zip <folder name>/

To compress with gzip:

tar czf rathena.tar.gz <folder name>/

[Pink Guy]

Thanks. I will try this when I start my server again