How to copy hrenalion files in ubuntu?

Question

bash

Actually, subject.
On a Mesozoic netbook with Xubuntu 14, there is a folder with a bunch of small files on board (a million, let's say). You need to copy them to another screw.
The usual cp path/*.* pathto/*.* first thinks for a long time, then returns an error (something like Argument list too long). Through the built-in graphical file manager, the percentage hangs at 10%.

Answer 1

On the old machine
Copy the file to the new one. On the new one:
Copying many files file by file is much slower in any way than packing with tar, copying and unpacking

Answer 2

rsync

Answer 3

The usual cp path/*.* pathto/*.* first thinks for a long time, then returns an error (something like Argument list too long).

Well, remove the asterisks and don't force the shell.
cd path ; cp -a . path to

Answer 4

You can also try find, it works faster than just cp:
the mechanism is as follows:
files are searched in the desired directory, for each found file, the cp path/*.* pathto/*.* copy command is executed