Bash Function to sync directories

rsync_func.sh

#------------------------------------------------
# $1 should be the local dir you want to sync
# $2 should be the remote server path (i.e. user@remote:~/)
#------------------------------------------------
function rsync_dir () {
  rsync --verbose --progress --stats --compress --rsh=/usr/bin/ssh --recursive --times --perms --links --delete --exclude "*bak" --exclude "*~" $1 $2
}