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diff --git a/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 b/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 index 03f52ee..5dc8c18 100644 --- a/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 +++ b/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 @@ -217,16 +217,12 @@ The default is "(?i).*\\.(gz|z|bz|bz2|tgz|zip|rpm|deb|jpg|gif|png|jp2|mp3|ogg|avi|wmv|mpeg|mpg|rm|mov)$" .TP .BI --no-hard-links -Don't preserve hard links from source to mirror directories. -Otherwise, no increment files will themselves be hard linked, but a -hard link database will be written so that hard links from any dataset -will be recreated if originally present. If many hard linked files -are present, this option can drastically decrease memory usage. -.TP -.B --no-resume -Do not resume last aborted backup even if it falls within the resume -window. -.TP +Don't replicate hard links on destination side. Note that because +metadata is written to a separate file, hard link information will not +be lost even if the --no-hard-links option is given (however, mirror +files will not be linked). If many hard-linked files are present, +this option can drastically increase memory usage. +..TP .B --null-separator Use nulls (\\0) instead of newlines (\\n) as line separators, which may help when dealing with filenames containing newlines. This |