Commit 27ed852c authored by bescoto's avatar bescoto

Slight rewrite


git-svn-id: http://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/svn/rdiff-backup@376 2b77aa54-bcbc-44c9-a7ec-4f6cf2b41109
parent 0f5670d9
......@@ -27,12 +27,12 @@ rdiff-backup \- local/remote mirror and incremental backup
is a script, written in
.BR python (1)
that backs up one directory to another. The target directory ends up
a exact copy (mirror) of the source directory, but extra reverse
diffs are stored in the target directory, so you can still recover
files lost some time ago. The idea is to combine the best features of
a mirror and an incremental backup. rdiff-backup also preserves
symlinks, special files, hardlinks, permissions, uid/gid ownership (if
it is running as root), and modification times.
a copy (mirror) of the source directory, but extra reverse diffs are
stored in a special subdirectory of that target directory, so you can
still recover files lost some time ago. The idea is to combine the
best features of a mirror and an incremental backup. rdiff-backup
also preserves symlinks, special files, hardlinks, permissions,
uid/gid ownership (if it is running as root), and modification times.
.B rdiff-backup
can also operate
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