Re: Drive Imaging

["Mikkel L. Ellertson" <mikkel Infinity-ltd com>]

On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Gary Nielson wrote:

> Linux Journal recently had a way to copy disks:
> 
>        tar clf - . | ( umask 0; cd /dir/to/copy/to; tar xvf - )
> 
[SNIP]
> 
> I tested it and it seemed to work great. What I am wondering is using this
> with two identical drives on the same machine as a way to routinely back
> up the first drive to the second. But in subsequent backups, how could I
> employ the "find" command to just back up files that have changed since
> the last backup?
> 
You may want to check out rsync for this.  It was designed for this.  It
will also do backups to another machine.