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| author | owsla <owsla@2b77aa54-bcbc-44c9-a7ec-4f6cf2b41109> | 2008-06-14 17:15:55 +0000 |
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| committer | owsla <owsla@2b77aa54-bcbc-44c9-a7ec-4f6cf2b41109> | 2008-06-14 17:15:55 +0000 |
| commit | c4ecd2ca8b35800a61b724a784394fb828bbc11e (patch) | |
| tree | d6ae1597cd7dbd95c800bb7973c4286b39074fb8 | |
| parent | a72819b38230bae86b8b222aa5c563aae8e2e730 (diff) | |
| download | rdiff-backup-c4ecd2ca8b35800a61b724a784394fb828bbc11e.tar.gz | |
Add a bigger warning to the entry about --force
git-svn-id: http://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/svn/rdiff-backup/trunk@895 2b77aa54-bcbc-44c9-a7ec-4f6cf2b41109
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diff --git a/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 b/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 index 5d91bde..41cfb24 100644 --- a/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 +++ b/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 @@ -202,6 +202,10 @@ instance, when overwriting of a destination path, or when removing multiple sessions with .BR \-\-remove-older-than ). rdiff-backup will generally tell you if it needs this. +.BR WARNING: +You can cause data loss if you mis-use this option. +Furthermore, do NOT use this option when doing a restore, as it will +DELETE FILES, unless you absolutely know what you are doing. .TP .BI "\-\-group-mapping-file " filename Map group names and ids according the the group mapping file |