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?
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Answer from the rsync mailing list:

Use `--itemize-changes`
Here's another answer [from the mailing list](https://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2011-October/026974.html). There's a script by Kevin Korb:

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> If you want something you can run after the fact here is a tool I wrote
>  a while back that does a sort of diff across 2 --link-dest based backups:
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> <http://sanitarium.net/unix_stuff/rspaghetti_backup/diff_backup.pl.txt>
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> It will also tell you what files were not included in the newer backup
>  which --itemize-changes will not since it doesn't actually --delete
>  anything. The program is written in perl so it should be easy enough to
>  tweak it if it doesn't do exactly what you want.
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