Commit b045c394 authored by bescoto's avatar bescoto

Update --remove-older-than and --force


git-svn-id: http://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/svn/rdiff-backup@705 2b77aa54-bcbc-44c9-a7ec-4f6cf2b41109
parent e03ae824
......@@ -166,7 +166,10 @@ Exclude all socket files.
Exclude all symbolic links.
.TP
.B --force
Authorize the updating or overwriting of a destination path.
Authorize a more drastic modification of a directory than usual (for
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.
.TP
.BI "--group-mapping-file " filename
......@@ -350,8 +353,15 @@ hours, and 7 seconds. In this context, a month means 30 days, a year
is 365 days, and a day is always 86400 seconds.
rdiff-backup cannot remove-older-than and back up or restore in a
single session. If you want to, for instance, backup a directory and
remove old files in it, you must run rdiff-backup twice.
single session. In order to both backup a directory and remove old
files in it, you must run rdiff-backup twice.
By default, rdiff-backup will only delete information from one session
at a time. To remove two or more sessions at the same time, supply the
.B --force
option (rdiff-backup will tell you if
.B --force
is required).
Note that snapshots of deleted files are covered by this operation.
Thus if you deleted a file two weeks ago, backed up immediately
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......@@ -188,7 +188,10 @@ Exclude all socket files.
Exclude all symbolic links.
.TP
.B --force
Authorize the updating or overwriting of a destination path.
Authorize a more drastic modification of a directory than usual (for
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.
.TP
.BI "--group-mapping-file " filename
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