From 78d63fa4138984f39b7ac9265d8e86827a2861f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ben Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 23:19:07 +0000 Subject: Added info on filename length bug git-svn-id: http://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/svn/rdiff-backup/trunk@74 2b77aa54-bcbc-44c9-a7ec-4f6cf2b41109 --- rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 b/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 index 82b6f11..5392b9c 100644 --- a/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 +++ b/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 @@ -712,8 +712,12 @@ handled correctly on systems with non-standard mknod syntax. .PP When an rdiff-backup session fails (for instance if a remote connection is lost), rdiff-backup tries to save the session so it can -be resumed later. Apparently, depending on how the rdiff-backup -session fails, later sessions cannot be resumed properly. +be resumed later. Apparently sometimes, depending on how the +rdiff-backup session fails, later sessions cannot be resumed properly. +.PP +Files whose names are close to the maximum length (e.g. 235 chars if +the maximum is 255) may be skipped because the filenames of related +increment files would be too long. .SH AUTHOR Ben Escoto -- cgit v1.2.1