I currently have a crontab job running on my machine every friday at 3 AM as a back up method.  The job runs a bash script which runs an rsync command to sync files from the server to my external hard drive.  The rsync command uses the --include-from flag to get a list of files to rsync such as *.cpp *.h etc. Unfortunately I'm running out of space on my hard drive and I want to replace it with another drive with the same storage room on it.  If I just continue the rsync as it is, I would not have gained anything because the second drive will be identical to the first, and it'll be full. I would ideally like to rsync only files from --include-from AND newer than the date at which I replaced my external drives (e.g., say I replace my drive today, then I want to rsync the files in my included file list AND newer than 3/27/2015).  That way it'll just be a continuation of the first drive.  Everything I can find online uses the find method to first get a list of files newer than date, and then pipe that list to rsync.  But since this is all happening from my local machine, how can I use find from my local machine to get the file list on the server?  Is there a better option, perhaps an rsync flag which checks the file's last-modified date?Thanks
Rsyncing files from server to local machine automatically
rsync;find
After your last backup using the old disk, create a timestamp and then backup files after that timestamp.  You'll use find and the --newer flag to list files newer than the timestamp, then the --file-from flag to rsync to specify that list of files for copying.Here's how:Step 1:  Before you swap to the new drive: touch /someplace/timestamp.txtStep 2:  Change to the new disk.Step 3: Modify the cronjob script to do something like:find BLAH BLAH BLAH -newer /someplace/timestamp.txt -type f -print0 >/tmp/listrsync -avP --inplace --file-from=/tmp/list --from0 desthost:/dest/placeNEVER change, touch, or modify the /someplace/timestamp.txt file.