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authorowsla <owsla@2b77aa54-bcbc-44c9-a7ec-4f6cf2b41109>2008-01-21 21:16:40 +0000
committerowsla <owsla@2b77aa54-bcbc-44c9-a7ec-4f6cf2b41109>2008-01-21 21:16:40 +0000
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parent78f5e4609358ebb57a4cdf8b21e1fb38237b43c4 (diff)
downloadrdiff-backup-2c0c084566adfbf6a02de990b31d609e40294120.tar.gz
Manpage updates from Justin Pryzby
git-svn-id: http://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/svn/rdiff-backup/trunk@875 2b77aa54-bcbc-44c9-a7ec-4f6cf2b41109
-rw-r--r--rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG2
-rw-r--r--rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.114
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG b/rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG
index 4503218..8df3b18 100644
--- a/rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG
+++ b/rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
New in v1.1.16 (????/??/??)
---------------------------
+Manpage improvements from Justin Pryzby.
+
Improve the handling of directories with many small files when backing-up
over a network connection. Thanks to Austin Clements for the test case.
(Andrew Ferguson)
diff --git a/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 b/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1
index 88a0c0d..5d91bde 100644
--- a/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1
+++ b/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1
@@ -366,11 +366,11 @@ If the filesystem to which we are backing up is not case-sensitive, automatic 'q
.B \-\-preserve-numerical-ids
If set, rdiff-backup will preserve uids/gids instead of trying to
preserve unames and gnames. See the
-.B USERS and GROUPS
+.B USERS AND GROUPS
section for more information.
.TP
.B \-\-print-statistics
-If set, summary statistics will be printed after a successful backup
+If set, summary statistics will be printed after a successful backup.
If not set, this information will still be available from the
session statistics file. See the
.B STATISTICS
@@ -483,7 +483,7 @@ will be ignored.
Map user names and ids according to the user mapping file
.IR filename .
See the
-.B USERS and GROUPS
+.B USERS AND GROUPS
section for more information.
.TP
.BI \-v [0-9] ", \-\-verbosity " [0-9]
@@ -644,7 +644,7 @@ string specified by \-\-remote-schema, quote it with another %, as in
Although ssh itself may be secure, using rdiff-backup in the default
way presents some security risks. For instance if the server is run
as root, then an attacker who compromised the client could then use
-rdiff-backup to overwrite arbitary server files by "backing up" over
+rdiff-backup to overwrite arbitrary server files by "backing up" over
them. Such a setup can be made more secure by using the sshd
configuration option
.B command="rdiff-backup \-\-server"
@@ -965,7 +965,7 @@ The
and
.B \-\-group-mapping-file
options override this behavior. If either of these options is given,
-the policy descriped in 2 and 3 above will be followed, but with the
+the policy described in 2 and 3 above will be followed, but with the
mapped user and group instead of the original. If you specify both
.B \-\-preserve-numerical-ids
and one of the mapping options, the behavior is undefined.
@@ -1022,7 +1022,7 @@ directory statistics file is more compact (and slightly less readable)
but describes every directory backed up. It also may be compressed to
save space.
-Statistics related options include
+Statistics\-related options include
.B \-\-print-statistics
and
.BR \-\-null-separator .
@@ -1030,7 +1030,7 @@ and
Also, rdiff-backup will save various messages to the log file, which
is rdiff-backup-data/backup.log for backup sessions and
rdiff-backup-data/restore.log for restore sessions. Generally what is
-written to this file will coincide with the messages diplayed to
+written to this file will coincide with the messages displayed to
stdout or stderr, although this can be changed with the
.B \-\-terminal-verbosity
option.