From 9deedbd08ec51b45ded284a747671f0466eec00c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bescoto Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 18:13:07 +0000 Subject: Removed reference to --windows-time-format git-svn-id: http://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/svn/rdiff-backup/branches/r0-12@380 2b77aa54-bcbc-44c9-a7ec-4f6cf2b41109 --- rdiff-backup/FAQ-body.html | 22 +++++++--------------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/rdiff-backup/FAQ-body.html b/rdiff-backup/FAQ-body.html index 9c4db26..371fa52 100644 --- a/rdiff-backup/FAQ-body.html +++ b/rdiff-backup/FAQ-body.html @@ -115,21 +115,13 @@ some header files in the Makefile: -Then, whenever you use rdiff-backup to back up from a unix system to -Windows, use the --windows-mode switch. This -compensates for some windows file systems' inability to store hard -links, symlinks, device files, sockets, fifos, case sensitive -filenames, and filenames with colons (":") in them. (Note: device -files, symlinks, fifos, and sockets will simply be skipped, and hard -link information will not be recorded.) - -

If you are backing up one windows system to another, full ---windows-mode is not necessary, but you'll still need ---windows-time-format, which stops rdiff-backup from -trying to make increment files with colons in them. Whichever ---windows* option you use, remember to use the same one when restoring -or listing that backup directory. - +Then, whenever you use rdiff-backup to back up or restore from a unix +system to Windows, use the --windows-mode switch. +This compensates for some windows file systems' inability to store +hard links, symlinks, device files, sockets, fifos, case sensitive +filenames, and filenames with colons (":") in them. No information +will be lost however, because rdiff-backup stores metadata in a +separate file.

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