Transfer large amount of images (30GB) to virtual server from slow, old, linux machine?

There is no right answer here - for the most part, file transfers do not use a lot of resources other then bandwidth, so the speed of the machine is probably not to big a deal.

The answer depends on what variant of Linux you have, and how you connect between the client and the server. The most obvious solution - if you have ssh on it is to use rsync - Rsync comes with most distros, or is trivially added by something like "apt-get install rsync" or "yum install rsync". The nice part about using rsync is that if the download fails partway through you just run the command and it will pick up where it left off.

If Rsync is not an option, The next logical solution would be to use scp - to use this you would use "scp -r serverip:/path /destpath". This will work as long as the server has ssh.

If that does not work, try using wget or ncftp to download via FTP. FTP is not a great protocol though.

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