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What's the best way to back up my media library to an external hard drive from Ubuntu?

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Problem

My media library isn't huge, but it isn't tiny (~50 GB). Every month or so, I just manually copy , , and to my EHD, and delete the old backup. But this is far from ideal. It's pretty slow, for one thing (~50 GB all together). It also isn't versioned, so if I ever want to go back multiple versions, …

Error Output

#!/bin/sh

rsync --delete --size-only -ravv /home/matthew/Music "/media/My Passport/backup/Music"
rsync --delete --size-only -ravv /home/matthew/Pict…

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Use the program , which works like an incremental backup and won't back up files that haven't changed. Here are a few different options (obviously, change the target directory. I'm using /mnt/usb in my examples): This will recursively archive sync y…

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