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diff --git a/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 b/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 index b6ecbe4..08469bf 100644 --- a/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 +++ b/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 @@ -56,23 +56,14 @@ ability to restore previous versions of that file. .SH OPTIONS .TP .B -b, --backup-mode -Force backup mode even if first argument appears to be an increment file. +Force backup mode even if first argument appears to be an increment or +mirror file. .TP .B --calculate-average Enter calculate average mode. The arguments should be a number of statistics files. rdiff-backup will print the average of the listed statistics files and exit. .TP -.BI "--chars-to-quote " chars -If this option is set, any characters in -.I chars -present in filenames on the source side will be quoted on the -destination side, so that they do not appear in filenames on the -remote side. See -.B --quoting-char -and -.BR --windows-mode . -.TP .B --check-destination-dir If an rdiff-backup session fails, running rdiff-backup with this option on the destination dir will undo the failed directory. This @@ -132,8 +123,7 @@ See the section for more information. .TP .B --exclude-special-files -Exclude all device files, fifos, sockets, and symlinks. This option -is implied by --windows-mode. +Exclude all device files, fifos, sockets, and symlinks. .TP .B --force Authorize the updating or overwriting of a destination path. @@ -202,7 +192,7 @@ In this mode rdiff-backup is similar to rsync (but usually slower). .TP .B --no-compare-inode -This relative esoteric option prevents rdiff-backup from flagging a +This relatively esoteric option prevents rdiff-backup from flagging a file as changed when its inode changes. This option may be useful if you are backing up two different directories to the same rdiff-backup destination directory. The downside is that hard link information may @@ -255,13 +245,6 @@ session statistics file. See the .B STATISTICS section for more information. .TP -.BI "--quoting-char " char -Use the specified character for quoting characters specified to be -escaped by the -.B --chars-to-quote -option. The default is the semicolon ";". See also -.BR --windows-mode . -.TP .BI "-r, --restore-as-of " restore_time Restore the specified directory as it was as of .IR restore_time . @@ -273,10 +256,6 @@ and see the .B RESTORING section for more information on restoring. .TP -.BI "--remote-cmd " command -This command has been depreciated as of version 0.4.1. Use ---remote-schema instead. -.TP .BI "--remote-schema " schema Specify an alternate method of connecting to a remote computer. This is necessary to get rdiff-backup not to use ssh for remote backups, or @@ -354,20 +333,6 @@ is noisiest). This determines how much is written to the log file. .TP .B "-V, --version" Print the current version and exit -.TP -.B --windows-mode -This option quotes characters not allowable on windows, and does not -try to preserve ownership, hardlinks, or permissions on the -destination side. It is appropriate when backing up a normal unix -file system to a windows one such as VFS, or a file system with -similar limitations. Because metadata is stored in a separate regular -file, this option does not prevent all data from being restored. -.TP -.B --windows-restore -This option turns on windows quoting, but does not disable -permissions, hard linking, or ownership. Use this when restoring from -an rdiff-backup directory on a windows file system to a unix file -system. .SH EXAMPLES Simplest case---backup directory foo to directory bar, with increments |