I'm using rsync `--link-dest` to preform a differential back up of my computer. After each backup, I'd like to save out a log of the new/changed files. Is this possible? If so, how would I do it?
['https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7629550', 'https://Stackoverflow.com', 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/597864/']
Answer from the rsync mailing list:

Use `--itemize-changes`
For referance you can also compare using rsync to do a dryrun between hardlinked backup directories to see how they are changed.

```
rsync -aHin day_06_*/ day_05_* 2>&1 | grep -v '^\.d'

```

Shows files that are added, removed, or renamed//moved.

The later only happens if you have a re-linking program relinking files that were renamed/moved. That can be important if you say had simply renamed a directory (rsync backup breaks the links in that case).