I know how to use rsync (sorta) to backup a disk and go between remote
machines. With my current incarnation of the os I'm not so worried about
backing up the whole system as I am a directory (and all of the directories
under it) nor copying between remote machines. The directory is the
'Documents' directory. Would I:

rsync -aquz --compress-level=5 /home/bmike1/Documents /media/bmike1/USB
DISK/
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