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Need advice for backup software for linux
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UPDATE: The specific date thing is because every 6 months i backup my nas to LTO tape so this backup is anything that isn't currently on tape just in case the NAS dies between backups.
Have you looked into using software meant for tape backup for that? It should back up only what's been changed/added since the last tape backup was done.
You said you run it daily in the post, but now it's every 6 months. You really should be more specific. I for one don't understand why you can't just do
rsync -au /source /targeti run this backup daily because the from date for it is based on the date of the last 6 monthly backup to tape