Sample ant build file for running rsync and scp base flat file deployment

build.xml

<project name="{{ name }}" default="help" basedir=".">
  
  <property name="username" value="{{ username }}"/>
  <property name="host" value="{{ host }}"/>
  <property name="dir" value="/srv/{{ path }}/"/>

  <tstamp>
    <format property="TODAY_UK" pattern="yyyyMMddhhmmss" locale="en,UK"/>
  </tstamp>

  <target name="help" description="show available commands" >
    <exec executable="ant" dir="." failonerror="true">
      <arg value="-p"/>
    </exec>
  </target>
  
  <target name="deploy-to" description="show where we are deploying to" >
    <echo>${username}@${host}:${dir}</echo>
  </target>

  <target name="deploy" description="deploy usng rsync" >
    <exec executable="rsync" dir="." failonerror="true">
      <arg value="-r"/>
      <arg value="."/>
      <arg value="${username}@${host}:${dir}"/>
      <arg value="--exclude-from=rsync.excludes"/>
      <arg value="-v"/>
    </exec>
  </target>

  <target name="deploy-test" description="test deploy usng rsync with the dry run flag set" >
    <exec executable="rsync" dir="." failonerror="true">
      <arg value="-r"/>
      <arg value="."/>
      <arg value="${username}@${host}:${dir}"/>
      <arg value="--exclude-from=rsync.excludes"/>
      <arg value="--dry-run"/>
      <arg value="-v"/>
    </exec>
  </target>

  <target name="backup" description="backup site" >
    <exec executable="scp" dir="." failonerror="true">
      <arg value="-r"/>
      <arg value="${username}@${host}:${dir}"/>
      <arg value="backups/${TODAY_UK}"/>
    </exec>
  </target>

</project>

Note that the {{ value }} parts need substituting for actual values.