Backing up your files is a very important and very often neglected measure to save yourself the frustration of lost data. Overcome that neglectful tendency, and protect your data from accidental loss ...
I've inherited a relatively simple wrapper script for rsync that I've been trying to modify to allow included/excluded file lists (specifically, adding a comma-delimited list of files to sync, ...
Not sure if this is of any interest to anybody, but during my Googling the other day I found a niftly little script that rsync's the Slackware-current tree on the local machine, removes extra stuff ...