Well I don't see why tar can't do everything you need.
If you have a copy of the full archive you could use
the -g (aka --listed-incremental) incremental flag
to get an incremental backup.
If you don't have a copy of the full archive available
then use the -N <somedate> option to grab only the files
newer than <somedate>. Thus you get an incremental backup.
There are also commercial Linux backup programs that can
do all this for you. But then maybe I'm missing something.

HTH,
Brian

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> From: Jason Clinton 
> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 9:47 AM
> To: kclug
> Subject: Backing up a directory to a remote file system
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> I've got a head scratcher. It seems it should be possible but 
> maybe just
> beyond my reach.
> 
> Wondering if anyone here has ever accomplished remote back up on a
> Reiser filesystem. I was going to use dump + SSH + .rhosts but then I
> realized that dump only works with ext(2|3) file systems.
> 
> I want to perform incremental backups of /pub on a Linux 
> samba server to
> a box on the other side of Kansas City. Some combination involving tar
> looks like the right direction to go but I can't think of a 
> way to have
> tar incrementally compare the files being backed up to the remote
> tarball before the operation begins. I'm not ready to rely on sshfs
> until it is more stable.
> 
> Any ideas? Creative solutions welcome.
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