Back up folders over the local network

I need to back certain folders regularly from the new laptop to the old laptop.

Thanks to great help from LQ, I can do this easily like this:

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rsync -av -e "ssh" --progress /home/pedro/summer2021 pedro@192.168.10.13:/home/pedro/

At the moment, I copy and paste each command and press enter in bash, rsync asks for the password on the other laptop, then does the job.

But, since this is a recurring thing, I would like to automate it in bash.

How can I automate this process?

Make a text file with the paths to the folders to backup?

Then connect with ssh? Or still use rsync??

Can I hand rsync a batch file??