From 60e491d4faacc4480d618a869c344f0509d6cfaa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bescoto Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 18:07:24 +0000 Subject: Clarified --remove-older-than entry. git-svn-id: http://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/svn/rdiff-backup/trunk@310 2b77aa54-bcbc-44c9-a7ec-4f6cf2b41109 --- rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 | 15 ++++++++------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 b/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 index 6dd3dfd..7aed792 100644 --- a/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 +++ b/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 @@ -198,9 +198,8 @@ that directory. .TP .B "-l, --list-increments" List the number and date of partial incremental backups contained in -the specified destination directory. This option is incompatible with -backing up or restoring and must be run in a separate instance of -rdiff-backup. +the specified destination directory. No backup or restore will take +place if this option is given. .TP .B "-m, --mirror-only" Do not create an rdiff-backup-data directory or make any increments. @@ -303,10 +302,12 @@ example, 32m means 32 minutes, and 3W2D10h7s means 3 weeks, 2 days, 10 hours, and 7 seconds. In this context, a month means 30 days, a year is 365 days, and a day is always 86400 seconds. -Note that this option is incompatible with backing up or restoring and -must be run in a separate instance of rdiff-backup. Remember also -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 +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. -- cgit v1.2.1