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Diffstat (limited to 'rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1')
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diff --git a/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 b/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 index a24a8ba..69e1a2c 100644 --- a/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 +++ b/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 @@ -306,11 +306,12 @@ rdiff-backup cannot remove-older-than and back up or restore in a single session. If you want to, for instance, backup a directory and remove old files in it, you must run rdiff-backup twice. -Note that snapshots of deleted files are covered by this operation, so -if you deleted a file and backed up two weeks ago, and then run ---remove-older-than 10D today, no trace of that file will remain. -Finally, file selection options such as --include and --exclude don't -affect --remove-older-than. +Note that snapshots of deleted files are covered by this operation. +Thus if you deleted a file two weeks ago, backed up immediately +afterwards, and then ran rdiff-backup with --remove-older-than 10D +today, no trace of that file would remain. Finally, file selection +options such as --include and --exclude don't affect +--remove-older-than. .TP .BI "--restrict " path Require that all file access be inside the given path. This switch, |