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

[Karl Lattimer]

On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 14:41 +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> 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
> >   

I'd suggest rsync, it's pretty good for this kind of thing, it's
supposed to be what's under the hood on apple timemachine too.

BR,
 K
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