rsync

# www.fduran.com
# sync (copy) local to remote server directory
# take out dry-run after test

rsync --dry-run -azvrh -e 'ssh -p 2022' --exclude 'donotcopy' /var/www/ user@10.0.0.1:/var/www/

# options:
a: archive, preserve metadata
z: compression
v: verbose
r: recursive
h: human
--progress