On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:52:16 -0500, Joel J. Adamson wrote:

> Hello Fellow Slackers,
>
> I am using Slackware 12.0 and I have several directories that I would
> like to backup incrementally every day to an external USB hard drive..
> As per the tar manual, tar --update is not a good option for this.
>
> What's the best way to do this? Everything I've found on the net is for
> people looking to clone or back up an entire system. I just want to
> preserve my few precious data directories, all on my /home partition.
>
> I've also tried using /usr/sbin/backup included with tar, but that is
> specifically designed to control tape drives, and hasn't worked yet with
> this HD.
>

Here is a link to a nice article on using rsync to do backups, including
incremental backups.

http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/r...ots/index.html

Cheers,
Mike