rsync: only backup recently modified files
 

hello

I run rsync on Windows machines in order to back them up to backup servers.

My questions is:

is there a way that I can tell rsync only to backup files which have been modified on the Windows machine within, say, the last month?

For that matter, how could I do this in if I were rsync-ing from Linux?

Thanks
Hamish

Find allows you to do things based on age. For example:
#Delete files that haven't been modified for 90 days with the following command
find /mnt/backup -type f \( -name '*.gz' -o -name '*.log' \) \
-mtime +90 -exec rm {} \;

rsync already does move changed files, that saves it from having to do every file.

More options with man find

hey

yeah I have now got it working with a find > list_of_files and then using list_of_files as the include list for rsync

Cheers
Hamish

I'm looking to do the exact same thing. Can you provide me with the syntax you used to achieve this?