Like another fellow mentioned, if you are really concerned about only
sending X amount of data in one shot, tar up the information, but split
the data into acceptable sized chunks.  'man tar' or 'info tar' should
give you more info than you ever want ;)  Then compress the chunks w/
either gzip or bzip2 w/ the compression turned all the way up, and then
transfer them w/ the method of your choice; sftp or rsync over ssh might
be good since you have ssh access on both boxes.

Another somewhat simpler option might be to use ftp (if you have it
availabe, and if it is workable i.e. data isn't *that* sensitive)  is to
use a client like lftp that has a 'mirror' command from your local
machine.  When you get home, fire up the client, log on to the same
directory every time using a bookmark, and mirror the directory.  Cntrl-C
to cancel when you leave in the morning, and start again when you get home
that night.  The client will take care of most of the rest for you.

Other options could include wget (not sure about connecting via ssh, but
ftp would work) which has a metric butt-ton of options and is very
scriptable, to simply running a script out of cron every night, that calls
rsync, and runs until either its done, or until a give time, and exits.
On that note, you might try checking freshmeat.net and see if there isn't
already a quick shell or perl script that does something just like that.

HTH,

nuk

-- 
I know more than enough *nix to do some very destructive things,
and not nearly enough to do very many useful things.


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