rsync: only backup recently modified files

hamish · 09-04-2005, 07:31 AM

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

homey · 09-05-2005, 12:08 AM

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

hamish · 09-05-2005, 03:51 PM

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

silveraxela · 09-20-2011, 10:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hamish

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?