If you have that access, you should use svnsync instead. For a large repository, running rsync can take hours just hashing all the individual files on either end to compare, just to eventually update one or two revisions. svnsync is much more 'aware', and so it's much easier to keep up to date if necessary.
True. Or just zip/tar it up and then rsync that. To be clear I was talking about a one time thing, not continued updates -- which would be done with SVK
