[Cialug] Backups with rsync

[Jonathan Bailey]

I'm currently using rsync to do a backup every night. I'd like to do 
incremental backups, just storing the changed files every backup cycle. 
I'm thinking of a full backup on Sunday, and incremental every other day 
of the week. I know you can use --link-dest with rsync, but I don't want 
all the hard links. How can I make it back up only the changed files 
(and structure)?


Here's what I'm using now:
DATESTAMP='2005-02-19'  // always current date
rsync -av --exclude-from=rs.exclude /home/ /backup/backup-$DATESTAMP/ > 
/backup/backup-$DATESTAMP.log



Jon