Added notes about the remote destination restore and no increment

restore bugs.


git-svn-id: http://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/svn/rdiff-backup/trunk@183 2b77aa54-bcbc-44c9-a7ec-4f6cf2b41109

2 files changed, 21 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG b/rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG
index b4d3415..c04d80f 100644
--- a/rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG
+++ b/rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+New in v0.9.6 (2002/08/30)
+--------------------------
+
+Fixed bug, probably introduced in 0.9.3, which prevented restores from
+a local source to a remote destination.  Reported by Phillip Eby.
+
+Fixed another bug reported by Phillip Eby, where restores would fail
+if rdiff-backup had only been run once and no increments were
+available.
+
+
 New in v0.9.5 (2002/08/09)
 --------------------------
 
diff --git a/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 b/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1
index 762e20e..dc114d4 100644
--- a/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1
+++ b/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1
@@ -240,15 +240,17 @@ See the
 .B REMOTE OPERATION
 section for more information.
 .TP
-.BI "--remove-older-than " time_interval
+.BI "--remove-older-than " time_spec
 Remove the incremental backup information in the destination directory
-that has been around longer than time_interval.  The time interval is
-an integer followed by the character s, m, h, D, W, M, or Y,
-indicating seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or years
-respectively, or a number of these concatenated.  For example, 32m
-means 32 minutes, and 3W2D10h7s means 3 weeks, 2 days, 10 hours, and 7
-seconds.  In this context, a month means 30 days, a year is 365 days,
-and a day is always 86400 seconds.
+that has been around longer than the given time.
+.I time_spec
+can be either an absolute time, like "2002-01-04", or a time interval.
+The time interval is an integer followed by the character s, m, h, D,
+W, M, or Y, indicating seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months,
+or years respectively, or a number of these concatenated.  For
+example, 32m means 32 minutes, and 3W2D10h7s means 3 weeks, 2 days, 10
+hours, and 7 seconds.  In this context, a month means 30 days, a year
+is 365 days, and a day is always 86400 seconds.
 
 Note that this option is incompatible with backing up or restoring and
 must be run in a separate instance of rdiff-backup.  Remember also