- Added the --only-write-batch=FILE option that may be used (instead
of --write-batch=FILE) to create a batch file without doing any
- actual updating of the destination.
+ actual updating of the destination. This allows you to divert all
+ the file-updating data away from a slow data link (as long as you
+ are pushing the data to the remote server when creating the batch).
- Changed the outputting of "safe" filenames to use backslash-escaped
characters rather than '?'s. Any non-printable character is output
it does not complain about an unexpectedly closed socket (since we
really did expect the socket to close).
+ - If the daemon can't open the log-file specified in rsyncd.conf, fall
+ back to using syslog. This is better than a (typically) totally
+ silent failure (since a daemon is not usually run with --no-detach).
+
INTERNAL:
- Rsync now calls setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "").