backup

Although it is recommended to unmount file systems before backing them up (to guarantee you get every file in a consistent state) running dump on a locally mounted filesystem will work.

If you just want to copy certain files to another location then cp can be used to do a backup. You can find the files that you need to copy (those that changed since a certain period of time) and copy them to a new destination. For example

find . -mtime -1 -exec cp {} /new_dir \;

This basically says that you want to find all files, starting in the current directory that have been modified in less than one day and copy them to /new_dir. The {} just means to use the result of the find command before the -exec option and the \; is required to end this structure of the find command. You can change the value following -mtime (it can even be + instead of -). You can also use -atime (accessed instead of modified). These are files that were touched, but not changed. I believe a variation of -mtime with a minuse(-) value is the best for your scenario.

I hope this helps.

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