On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 2:52 PM, fedora <fedora@ayni.com> wrote:
just certain directories, which may end up in rsyncing the entire drive, if necessary.


I'll put in a good word for rsnapshot, an rsync wrapper which I've used happily for several years and has worked well for my needs. Just so people don't go reinventing the wheel :-)

poc