Example of syncing website from local to remote

sync.bash

#!/opt/local/bin/bash
user='user'
domain='domain.tld'
source='/absolute/path/to/dir/above/transfer/point'
target="${user}@${domain}:/home/"

#
# non-perishable
BLACKLIST=(
  ".DS_Store"
  "*#*"
  ".cache"
  ".ssh"
  "logs"
  "opcache.php"
  "testing"
);

# this stuff is NOT touched at all on the remote side
# asolutes are with respect to the transfer point!
PROTECTLIST=(
"P .cache/"
"P /${user}/.ssh"
"P /${user}/logs"
"P /${user}/.bash_history"
"P /${user}/.emacs.d"
"P php.log"
);
#
# --dry-run
function sync () {
composer dumpautoload -o

rsync -e '/usr/bin/ssh -T -x' \
      --numeric-ids \
      --prune-empty-dirs \
      --delete \
      --filter='-p .DS_Store' \
      --exclude-from <(printf '%s\n' "${BLACKLIST[@]}") \
      --filter='. '<(printf '%s\n' "${PROTECTLIST[@]}") \
      --delete-excluded \
      --archive \
      --progress \
      --times \
      --copy-links \
      --verbose \
      "${source}" "${target}"
}
sync "$@"
#
#
# reset PHP (cgi)
/usr/bin/ssh -vTx "${user}"@"${domain}" 'killall -9 php56.cgi'



#### NOTES
# -p   (with filter) perishable means ignore if deleting directing anyway
# --prune-empty-dirs  remove empty remote dirs
# --delete-excluded  delete remote not on sender and delete files in exclude array
# --exclude  items are relative to transfer point


# ssh

#     T: turn off pseudo-tty to decrease cpu load on destination.
#     c arcfour: use the weakest but fastest SSH encryption. Must specify "Ciphers arcfour" in sshd_config on destination.
#     o Compression=no: Turn off SSH compression.
#     x: turn off X forwarding if it is on by default.

# This creates an archive that does the following:

# rsync (Everyone seems to like -z, but it is much slower for me)

#     a: archive mode - rescursive, preserves owner, preserves permissions, preserves modification times, preserves group, copies symlinks as symlinks, preserves device files.
#     H: preserves hard-links
#     A: preserves ACLs
#     X: preserves extended attributes
#     x: don't cross file-system boundaries
#     v: increase verbosity
#     --numeric-ds: don't map uid/gid values by user/group name
#     --delete: delete extraneous files from dest dirs (differential clean-up during sync)
#     --progress: show progress during transfer

USE AT YOUR OWN PERIL