Added SSH and Time Machine style backup example

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 * Backup with exclusion list:
 	
 		rsync_tmbackup.sh /home /mnt/backup_drive excluded_patterns.txt
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+* Backup to remote drive over SSH, on port 2222:
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+        rsync_tmbackup.sh -p 2222 /home user@example.com:/mnt/backup_drive
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+* To mimic Time Machine's behaviour, a cron script can be setup to backup at regular interval. For example, the following cron job checks if the drive "/mnt/backup" is currently connected and, if it is, starts the backup. It does this check every 1 hour.
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+        0 */1 * * * if [[ -d /mnt/backup ]]; then rsync_tmbackup.sh /home /mnt/backup; fi 
 	
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