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@@ -51,6 +51,11 @@ permissions and mtimes afterwards.
This option controls every how many seconds rdiff-backup checkpoints
its current status. The default is 20.
.TP
+.BI "--current-time " seconds
+This option is useful mainly for testing. If set, rdiff-backup will
+it for the current time instead of consulting the clock. The argument
+is the number of seconds since the epoch.
+.TP
.BI "--exclude " regexp
Exclude files matching regexp. This argument can be used multiple times.
.TP
@@ -67,6 +72,13 @@ automatically excluded.
Authorize overwriting of a destination directory. rdiff-backup will
generally tell you if it needs this.
.TP
+.BI --hard-links
+Preserve hard links from source to mirror directories. 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 increase memory usage.
+.TP
.B "-l, --list-increments"
List the number and date of partial incremental backups contained in
the specified destination directory.