From 2c0c084566adfbf6a02de990b31d609e40294120 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: owsla Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:16:40 +0000 Subject: Manpage updates from Justin Pryzby git-svn-id: http://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/svn/rdiff-backup/trunk@875 2b77aa54-bcbc-44c9-a7ec-4f6cf2b41109 --- rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG | 2 ++ rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 | 14 +++++++------- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG b/rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG index 4503218..8df3b18 100644 --- a/rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG +++ b/rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG @@ -1,6 +1,8 @@ New in v1.1.16 (????/??/??) --------------------------- +Manpage improvements from Justin Pryzby. + Improve the handling of directories with many small files when backing-up over a network connection. Thanks to Austin Clements for the test case. (Andrew Ferguson) diff --git a/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 b/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 index 88a0c0d..5d91bde 100644 --- a/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 +++ b/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 @@ -366,11 +366,11 @@ If the filesystem to which we are backing up is not case-sensitive, automatic 'q .B \-\-preserve-numerical-ids If set, rdiff-backup will preserve uids/gids instead of trying to preserve unames and gnames. See the -.B USERS and GROUPS +.B USERS AND GROUPS section for more information. .TP .B \-\-print-statistics -If set, summary statistics will be printed after a successful backup +If set, summary statistics will be printed after a successful backup. If not set, this information will still be available from the session statistics file. See the .B STATISTICS @@ -483,7 +483,7 @@ will be ignored. Map user names and ids according to the user mapping file .IR filename . See the -.B USERS and GROUPS +.B USERS AND GROUPS section for more information. .TP .BI \-v [0-9] ", \-\-verbosity " [0-9] @@ -644,7 +644,7 @@ string specified by \-\-remote-schema, quote it with another %, as in Although ssh itself may be secure, using rdiff-backup in the default way presents some security risks. For instance if the server is run as root, then an attacker who compromised the client could then use -rdiff-backup to overwrite arbitary server files by "backing up" over +rdiff-backup to overwrite arbitrary server files by "backing up" over them. Such a setup can be made more secure by using the sshd configuration option .B command="rdiff-backup \-\-server" @@ -965,7 +965,7 @@ The and .B \-\-group-mapping-file options override this behavior. If either of these options is given, -the policy descriped in 2 and 3 above will be followed, but with the +the policy described in 2 and 3 above will be followed, but with the mapped user and group instead of the original. If you specify both .B \-\-preserve-numerical-ids and one of the mapping options, the behavior is undefined. @@ -1022,7 +1022,7 @@ directory statistics file is more compact (and slightly less readable) but describes every directory backed up. It also may be compressed to save space. -Statistics related options include +Statistics\-related options include .B \-\-print-statistics and .BR \-\-null-separator . @@ -1030,7 +1030,7 @@ and Also, rdiff-backup will save various messages to the log file, which is rdiff-backup-data/backup.log for backup sessions and rdiff-backup-data/restore.log for restore sessions. Generally what is -written to this file will coincide with the messages diplayed to +written to this file will coincide with the messages displayed to stdout or stderr, although this can be changed with the .B \-\-terminal-verbosity option. -- cgit v1.2.1