Is there a way to skip over files that already exist when backing up folder

Everytime I want to backup a folder from my hard drive to an external hard drive, the only option I have is to replace the entire folder with the updated one. Is there a way to tell it to just look through the folder and only add new stuff, thus making backups faster?
I don't like Time Machine, I prefer to do manual backups. And I backup my 'iTunes' folder about once a month, to ensure all new songs, musics, apps, etc. are backed up on the external hard drive if my internal one should ever fail.

Investigate these:
[CarbonCopy Cloner|http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html] (donationware)
[SuperDuper|http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html] (shareware)
[IBackup|http://www.grapefruit.ch/iBackup/index.html] (free)
The Restore function of Disk Utility included in OS X. [Kappy's directions|http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8799711#8799711]
[Tri-Backup (commercial)|http://www.tri-edre.com/english/tribackup.html] (payware)
I use Silverkeeper for backing up individual folders but I don't know if the older version is compatible with Leopard. CCC lets you sutomize what gets backed up but it's a bit cumbersome to do it at just the folder level. I haven't tried some of the others at all so I can't recommend.

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