One way to "provide the password once per connection" is using sshfs: 

sshfs user@remotehost:/path/I/care /where/I/want/it 

Give your password and the mount will persist until either machine is booted 
or the connection dies. 

Now you can:
rsync -[all I want] /path/to/save/ /where/I/want/it 

Also take a look at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sshpass/
which I have used in "EXTREME" situations (I hate files containing passwords 
and WHEN I HAVE TO, I chmod them ti 0400)
ET 

 

joe@actionline.com writes: 

> 
> Thanks to Bryan and Keith for the helpful tips. 
> 
> Keith added this:
>> Ran into this today http://troy.jdmz.net/rsync/index.html
>  
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