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.

  • ShelldorOP
    4·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • Holzkohlen@feddit.de
      22·
      1 year ago

      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

      • ShelldorOP
        11·
        1 year ago

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