Backing up a directory to a remote file system

[Jason Clinton]

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Brian Densmore wrote:

| Well I don't see why tar can't do everything you need.
| If you have a copy of the full archive you could use
| the -g (aka --listed-incremental) incremental flag
| to get an incremental backup.

I cannot find any reference to this option in the 'tar' info page so I'm
not sure what it might accomplish.

| If you don't have a copy of the full archive available
| then use the -N <somedate> option to grab only the files
| newer than <somedate>. Thus you get an incremental backup.
| There are also commercial Linux backup programs that can
| do all this for you. But then maybe I'm missing something.

Per the clarification I just fired off, I want the list of changes to be
added to the preexisting tarball for that week. I don't think you can
pipe --append and --update over stdout over ssh which would be required
to add the changes to the remote file.

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