Continuously transfer files to the server

Question

I have linux client and linux server. Both are Ubuntu 16.04.
On the client I generated .txt files almost every second, and I want to transfer them to the server, so my question is: what is the best solution for this purpose?

I did this script:

#!/bin/bash

path="/home/path"

while true
do
    for entry in "$path"/*.txt
        do
            if [ -f "$entry" ]
            then
                scp "$entry" [email protected]:/home/4lkov/Desktop/scp && rm -f "$entry"
            else
                echo "No files";
            fi
        done
    sleep 1
done

So, I'm using SCP is it reliable or is there best ways (rsync or similar)?
Also I'm using sleep 1.. probably there is some watchdog? (i.e inotifywait -m /path -e create -e moved_to | )

Answer 1

This script loops forever over every file in $path and opens a SCP connection to transfer each file individually, pausing every second. This has a high overhead. Better use rsync instead to synchronize the directory from server to client.