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I quickly created two bash functions to use rsync and ssh for syncing directories from the local host to a remote host and vice versa.

The two methods are available on my shell function repository. The two methods are called net_bazzline_sync_from_host and net_bazzline_sync_to_host. Enjoy it :-).

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# Uses rsync with ssh to copy data from remote to local host
#
# @param string $1 - remote user
# @param string $2 - remote host
# @param string $3 - source path on remote host
# @param string $4 - destination path on local host
#
# @author stev leibelt 
# @since 2013-07-05
####
function net_bazzline_sync_from_host ()
{
    if [[ $# -eq 4 ]]; then
        USER="$1"
        HOST="$2"
        SOURCE="$3"
        DESTINATION="$4"
    else
        echo 'invalid number of variables provided'
        echo 'command user host source destination'
    fi

    rsync -avz -e ssh $USER@$HOST:$SOURCE $DESTINATION
}

####
# Uses rsync with ssh to copy data from local to remote host
#
# @param string $1 - remote user
# @param string $2 - remote host
# @param string $3 - source path on local host
# @param string $4 - destination path on remote host
#
# @author stev leibelt 
# @since 2013-07-05
function net_bazzline_sync_to_host ()
{
    if [[ $# -eq 4 ]]; then
        USER="$1"
        HOST="$2"
        SOURCE="$3"
        DESTINATION="$4"
    else
        echo 'invalid number of variables provided'
        echo 'command user host source destination'
    fi

    rsync -avz -e ssh $SOURCE $USER@$HOST:$DESTINATION
}