"Dirvish makes snapshot copies of changed files. So the cron job that runs at 
00:30 each night copies changes in files in the 8 vaults (directories or  
partitions). What I want to follow that daily update is to copy only the 
changed files from bkup1 to bkup2."

So, you're using a disk imaging tool to create incremental backups and the 
using a remote file synchronization tool to do another incremental backup. 

Why not just use 1 tool such as rdiff-backup? It's simpler and it has more 
useful backup & recover features. 

"Rdiff-backup backs up one directory to another, possibly over a network. The 
target directory ends up a copy of the source directory, but extra reverse 
diffs are stored in a special subdirectory of that target directory, so you can 
still recover files lost some time ago. 

The idea is to combine the best features of a mirror and an incremental backup. 
Rdiff-backup also preserves subdirectories, hard links, dev files, permissions, 
uid/gid ownership (if it is running as root), modification times, acls, eas, 
resource forks, etc. 

Finally, rdiff-backup can operate in a bandwidth efficient manner over a pipe, 
like rsync. Thus you can use rdiff-backup and ssh to securely back a hard drive 
up to a remote location, and only the differences will be transmitted."

https://rdiff-backup.net/

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