[ale] sftp, and rsync like ability

[dcorbin at machturtle.com (David Corbin)]

I have a web site to which sftp is the only way to manage the remote files.  I 
run gentoo.  I build my site locally, and then want to move it up to the 
remote site.  The standard sftp client seems woefully inadequate (unless I 
missed something in the help).

I would like a way to 'mirror' one directory to a remote one via sftp.   
rsync-like optimization is not really needed.  Is there a way to do this?

Thanks
David