[Breezy] Backups to USB Disk

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Would the copy command work for you?  (cp).  It does have an "update"
option that copies new files and any that have been changed.  I haven't
used it for this purpose and don't know how fast it would be - of course
this depends upon the amount of data you wish to move.  It also has a
recursive option that would need to be invoked.



I use tar for a backup of my home directory and you could probably use
this in a small bash program to automate it so that it would backup the
home directory and then extract it onto the usb drive.  It has lots of
options such as only backing up new or changed files.  



Dar is another program that might be of assistance - from what I have
seen it is like tar but more powerful.  It is available through the
repositories.



Hope this is of some help.



John_c.


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