incremental backup help required

[Atwood, Robert C]

I can answer this one! But mostly by directing you to an even better
answer that is already written.

Reading this article by Mike Rubel
http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/

Should give you some detailed idea of how to use the --link-dest
feature. 



There is a tool called 'dirvish' that I am told does all this and more,
using rsync as the underlying transfer mechanism 
http://www.dirvish.com/




-----Original Message-----
From: rsync-bounces+r.atwood=imperial.ac.uk at lists.samba.org
[mailto:rsync-bounces+r.atwood=imperial.ac.uk at lists.samba.org] On Behalf
Of gg gg234
Sent: 07 December 2005 11:03
To: rsync at lists.samba.org
Subject: incremental backup help required

Hi,

This is my rsync command


/usr/bin/rsync  --compress \
                      --verbose \
                      --rsh=ssh \
                      --times \
                      --owner \
                    --group \
                   --ignore-times \ 
                   --links \
                  --perms \
                 --recursive \
                 --size-only \
                --delete \
                --force \
                --numeric-ids \ 
               --exclude-from=/etc/rsync.exclude \
               --stats \
               /etc  \
               root at target_machine:/home/backup/thismachine/ 

I am using the above commnd to take backups and i need to take a only
incremental backups Which option i have to use
and how to specify in source machine and target machine.

I think i have to use --backup-dir=DIR option or anything else.

PLease help me how to take only incremental backups daily.
 
thanks for your help