rsync or replacement backup

[Mario Vukelic]

On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 22:14 +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> I'm not sure what your use case is, but I suspect that rdiff-backup
> might be the better tool for you to use. I has include and exclude
> directives on the command line, and with a little shell scripting you
> can read them from config files. I use a very rudimentary script along
> with such files, and it works surprisingly well for my needs.

Then again, I saw in the other replies that rsync can do this too, which
inexplicably I did not find when I perused the man page.