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Subject: Re: USB HD based backup schemes
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>
> I've taken a quick look at both the Bacula and Amanda documentation, but for 
> reasons below I'll list why I don't think that they are idea for my rather 
> simple situation.

rsync is what you need.

while r means remote you may use rsync between local filesystems too.