Bug 238158

As an example, do you mean the user could input a directory name, such as
"MyBackup" and rather than dated directories just have it replace the contents
of "MyBackup" each run?

Not replace, (one-way) synchronize (but I think that's what you meant).  And I
don't necessarily care about naming the directory, it could be the same name
(minus the date) that you currently use.

Then each time the backup runs, it updates a snapshot in time of the system it's
running on.

In fact, it might be good to keep the date in the directory name and just rename
it at each run.  This way you would instantly know when it ran last.

I'm working on fwbackups a bit today, and I'm still unclear as to what you mean
- As in change the options to use (update) snapshots rather than a full copy?

As it works right now, if you specify for example 3 days of rsync backups, each
backup directory will be dated and contain a full backup of the system.

What I am suggesting is the ability to keep a backup directory in sync with the
system when it's run.

When you run the backup the first time, it creates a full set of backed up files
in /backup/target/dir/myname.

Then, each successive run updates only the files needed (using rsync) to bring
the  /backup/target/dir/myname completely up to date with the files on the system.

This essentially gives you an updated set of backed up files from the system
each time that the program is run (a snapshot in time), but at the expense of
only updating the files that have changed (rsync).

Okay I see what you mean - The folder can be renamed to include the date of the
most recent run but the directory contents should never be removed, only updated
with file changes.

yes

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Sorry, I know it's been a while but this is being worked on.

Adding FutureFeature keyword to RFE's.

fwbackups-1.43.2-0.1.rc2.fc8 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 8

fwbackups-1.43.2-0.1.rc2.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9

fwbackups-1.43.2-0.1.rc2.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update fwbackups'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/FEDORA-2008-4809