Commit 9240761c authored by bescoto's avatar bescoto

Clarified --remove-older-than entry.


git-svn-id: http://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/svn/rdiff-backup@310 2b77aa54-bcbc-44c9-a7ec-4f6cf2b41109
parent 4cf10d63
......@@ -198,9 +198,8 @@ that directory.
.TP
.B "-l, --list-increments"
List the number and date of partial incremental backups contained in
the specified destination directory. This option is incompatible with
backing up or restoring and must be run in a separate instance of
rdiff-backup.
the specified destination directory. No backup or restore will take
place if this option is given.
.TP
.B "-m, --mirror-only"
Do not create an rdiff-backup-data directory or make any increments.
......@@ -303,10 +302,12 @@ example, 32m means 32 minutes, and 3W2D10h7s means 3 weeks, 2 days, 10
hours, and 7 seconds. In this context, a month means 30 days, a year
is 365 days, and a day is always 86400 seconds.
Note that this option is incompatible with backing up or restoring and
must be run in a separate instance of rdiff-backup. Remember also
that snapshots of deleted files are covered by this operation, so if
you deleted a file and backed up two weeks ago, and then run
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.
Note that snapshots of deleted files are covered by this operation, so
if you deleted a file and backed up two weeks ago, and then run
--remove-older-than 10D today, no trace of that file will remain.
Finally, file selection options such as --include and --exclude don't
affect --remove-older-than.
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