From c4ecd2ca8b35800a61b724a784394fb828bbc11e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: owsla Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 17:15:55 +0000 Subject: Add a bigger warning to the entry about --force git-svn-id: http://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/svn/rdiff-backup/trunk@895 2b77aa54-bcbc-44c9-a7ec-4f6cf2b41109 --- rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 b/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 index 5d91bde..41cfb24 100644 --- a/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 +++ b/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 @@ -202,6 +202,10 @@ instance, when overwriting of a destination path, or when removing multiple sessions with .BR \-\-remove-older-than ). rdiff-backup will generally tell you if it needs this. +.BR WARNING: +You can cause data loss if you mis-use this option. +Furthermore, do NOT use this option when doing a restore, as it will +DELETE FILES, unless you absolutely know what you are doing. .TP .BI "\-\-group-mapping-file " filename Map group names and ids according the the group mapping file -- cgit v1.2.1