Writing an rsync shell script on Mac to continuously sync local directory with remote

[alisamii]

I need to set up a shell script on Mac OS X Mountain Lion to sync a local directory to a remote directory (web server) using either an SSH connection (tunnel) or SFTP and have it run continuously every 30 seconds.

I also need to exclude certain files or folders from being synced.

The syncing would be unidirectional (mac -> webserver).

The basic parameters I need to have implemented are as follows:

Local path: /Volumes/path/to/local/directory
Remote server: example.com
username: someUser
password: somePassword
Remote path: /path/from/server/root/to/htdocs
Files to exclude: '.ht*', '*.sublime-*'
Folders to exclude: 'cache','administrator/cache'

I would also need help writing the crontask and adding it to my system to execute automatically.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.