[Klug-general] Slick CLI entry for incremental backup?

[Sharon Kimble]

Michael E. Rentell wrote:
> Good morning all,
>
> I keep an exact copy of my data files (all of /home/mick - including all 
> the hidden dot files) on my old machine which is networked under NFS. 
> Seems to work but takes a long time.
>
> I use Mandriva 2008 (2009 yukky) but the backup software provided isn't 
> for me (actually I'm baffled by the compression etc).
>
> Is there a single CLI entry I can put into a konsole which will take 
> every file in /home/mick and copy it to /mnt/backups (which is the 
> networked drive on the other machine) but actually copy over and 
> overwrite only files which have changed?
>
> Doing a complete backup takes hours (lotta data) but most actually 
> hasn't changed.
>
> Any ideas gratefully received.
>
> MikeR
> in Folkestone
>   
Mike. try using 'rsnapshot', its very good and maybe helpful for you.

Sharon.