Commit 41850a15 authored by owsla's avatar owsla

Manpage updates from Justin Pryzby


git-svn-id: http://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/svn/rdiff-backup@875 2b77aa54-bcbc-44c9-a7ec-4f6cf2b41109
parent c7c19e62
New in v1.1.16 (????/??/??)
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Manpage improvements from Justin Pryzby.
Improve the handling of directories with many small files when backing-up
over a network connection. Thanks to Austin Clements for the test case.
(Andrew Ferguson)
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......@@ -366,11 +366,11 @@ If the filesystem to which we are backing up is not case-sensitive, automatic 'q
.B \-\-preserve-numerical-ids
If set, rdiff-backup will preserve uids/gids instead of trying to
preserve unames and gnames. See the
.B USERS and GROUPS
.B USERS AND GROUPS
section for more information.
.TP
.B \-\-print-statistics
If set, summary statistics will be printed after a successful backup
If set, summary statistics will be printed after a successful backup.
If not set, this information will still be available from the
session statistics file. See the
.B STATISTICS
......@@ -483,7 +483,7 @@ will be ignored.
Map user names and ids according to the user mapping file
.IR filename .
See the
.B USERS and GROUPS
.B USERS AND GROUPS
section for more information.
.TP
.BI \-v [0-9] ", \-\-verbosity " [0-9]
......@@ -644,7 +644,7 @@ string specified by \-\-remote-schema, quote it with another %, as in
Although ssh itself may be secure, using rdiff-backup in the default
way presents some security risks. For instance if the server is run
as root, then an attacker who compromised the client could then use
rdiff-backup to overwrite arbitary server files by "backing up" over
rdiff-backup to overwrite arbitrary server files by "backing up" over
them. Such a setup can be made more secure by using the sshd
configuration option
.B command="rdiff-backup \-\-server"
......@@ -965,7 +965,7 @@ The
and
.B \-\-group-mapping-file
options override this behavior. If either of these options is given,
the policy descriped in 2 and 3 above will be followed, but with the
the policy described in 2 and 3 above will be followed, but with the
mapped user and group instead of the original. If you specify both
.B \-\-preserve-numerical-ids
and one of the mapping options, the behavior is undefined.
......@@ -1022,7 +1022,7 @@ directory statistics file is more compact (and slightly less readable)
but describes every directory backed up. It also may be compressed to
save space.
Statistics related options include
Statistics\-related options include
.B \-\-print-statistics
and
.BR \-\-null-separator .
......@@ -1030,7 +1030,7 @@ and
Also, rdiff-backup will save various messages to the log file, which
is rdiff-backup-data/backup.log for backup sessions and
rdiff-backup-data/restore.log for restore sessions. Generally what is
written to this file will coincide with the messages diplayed to
written to this file will coincide with the messages displayed to
stdout or stderr, although this can be changed with the
.B \-\-terminal-verbosity
option.
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