Need advice for backup software for linux

Shelldor@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.ml – 63 points –

Hi,

I currently use a program called copywhiz on windows that backs up any files or directories created after a certain date to a usb hard drive and runs once a day.

I want to transition fully to Linux. Is there any easy to use software that works on Linux that can do this?

P.S. I have tried creating a bash script to do this but for some reason it has trouble with the date part. So a software solution would be prefered.

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UPDATE: The specific date thing is because every 6 months i backup my nas to LTO tape so this backup is anything that isn't currently on tape just in case the NAS dies between backups.

Have you looked into using software meant for tape backup for that? It should back up only what's been changed/added since the last tape backup was done.

You said you run it daily in the post, but now it's every 6 months. You really should be more specific. I for one don't understand why you can't just do rsync -au /source /target

i run this backup daily because the from date for it is based on the date of the last 6 monthly backup to tape