differently from your normal system. For example, you could abbreviate
the list of users and groups. Also, you can protect this information from
being downloaded/uploaded by adding an exclude rule to the rsync.conf file
-(e.g. "exclude = /etc/"). Note that having the exclusion affect uploads
+(e.g. "exclude = /etc/**"). Note that having the exclusion affect uploads
is a relatively new feature in rsync, so make sure your server is running
-at least 2.6.3 to effect this.
+at least 2.6.3 to effect this. Also note that it is safest to exclude a
+directory and all its contents combining the rule "/some/dir/" with the
+rule "/some/dir/**" just to be sure that rsync will not allow deeper
+access to some of the excluded files inside the directory (rsync tries to
+do this automatically, but you might as well specify both to be extra
+sure).
dit(bf(port)) You can override the default port the daemon will listen on
by specifying this value (defaults to 873). This is ignored if the daemon
it() %l for the length of the file in bytes
it() %p for the process ID of this rsync session
it() %o for the operation, which is "send", "recv", or "del."
+ (the latter includes the trailing period)
it() %f for the filename (long form on sender; no trailing "/")
it() %n for the filename (short form; trailing "/" on dir)
it() %L either the string " -> SYMLINK" or "" if not a symlink