- - Rsync now supports popt's option aliases, which means that you can
- use /etc/popt and/or ~/.popt to create your own option aliases.
-
- - Added the --delete-during (--del) option which will delete files
- from on the receiving side incrementally as each directory in the
- transfer is being processed (which makes it more efficient than the
- default, before-the-transfer behavior of --delete). Note that the
- --del option is implemented as an internally-defined popt alias, so
- an rsync daemon that refuses "delete" (which, for safety's sake,
- really matches "delete*") will still refuse all delete options.
-
- - Added the --copy-dest option, which works like --link-dest except
- that it includes copies of identical files.
-
- - Added support for specifying multiple --compare-dest, --copy-dest, or
- --link-dest options, but only of a single type. (Promoted from the
- patches dir and enhanced.)
-
- - Added the --max-size option. (Promoted from the patches dir.)
-
- - The daemon-mode options were separated from the normal rsync options
- so that they can't be mixed together. This makes it impossible to
- start a daemon that had improper default option values that could
- cause problems (such as a hang or an abort) when a client connects.
-
- - The --bwlimit option may now be used in combination with --daemon
- to specify a default value for the daemon side and also a value
- that cannot be exceeded by a user-specified --bwlimit option.
-
- - Added the "port" parameter to the rsyncd.conf file. (Promoted from
- the patches dir.)
-
- - In _exit_cleanup(): when we are exiting with a partially-received
- file, we now flush any data in the write-cache before closing the
- partial file.
-
- - The --inplace support was enhanced to work with --compare-dest,
- --link-dest, and (the new) --copy-dest options.
-
- - Added the --dirs (-d) option for an easier way to copy directories
- without recursion.
-
- - Added the --list-only option which is mainly a way for the client to
- put the server into listing mode without needing to resort to any
- option kluges (e.g. the age-old use of "-r --exclude="/*/*" for a
- non-recursive listing).
-
- - Added the --omit-dir-times (-O) option which will avoid updating the
- modified time for directories when --times was specified. For a
- really large transfer, this option will avoid an extra pass through
- the file-list at the end of the transfer to tweak all the directory
- times.
-
- - Added the --filter (-f) option and its helper option, -F. Filter
- rules are an extension to the existing include/exclude handling
- that also supports nested filter files as well as per-directory
- filter files (like .cvsignore, but with full filter-rule parsing).
- This new option was chosen in order to ensure that all existing
- include/exclude processing remained 100% compatible with older
- versions.
-
- - Added the --delay-updates option that puts all updated files into
- a temporary directory (by default ".~tmp~", but settable via the
- --partial-dir=DIR option) until the end of the transfer. This
- makes the updates a little more atomic for a large transfer.
-
- SUPPORT FILES:
-
- - Added support/atomic-rsync -- a perl script that will transfer some
- files using rsync, and then move the updated files into place all at
- once at the end of the transfer. Only works when pulling, and uses
- --link-dest and a parallel hierarchy of files to effect its update.
-
- - Added support/mnt-excl that takes the /proc/mounts file and
- translates it into a set of excludes that will exclude all mount
- points (even mapped mounts to the same disk). The excludes are made
- relative to the specified source dir and properly anchored.
-
- - Added support/savetransfer.c -- a C program that can make a copy of
- all the data that flows over the wire. This lets you test for data
- corruption (by saving the data on both the sending side and the
- receiving side) or provides a way to help debug a protocol error.
-
- - Added support/rrsync -- my version of Joe Smith's restricted rsync
- perl script. This helps to ensure that only certain rsync commands
- can be run by an ssh invocation.
+ - Added the --specials option to tell rsync to copy special files (and does
+ not require root). The --devices option now affects just character and
+ block devices (which now matches the documentation). The -D option still
+ requests both --devices and --specials, and -a still implies -D.
+
+ - Added the --append option that makes rsync append data onto files
+ that are longer on the source than the destination (this includes new
+ files).
+
+ - Added the --min-size=SIZE option to exclude small files from the
+ transfer.
+
+ - Added the --compress-level option to allow you to set how aggressive
+ rsync's compression should be (this option implies --compress).
+
+ - Enhanced the parsing of the SIZE value for --min-size and --max-size
+ to allow easy entry of multiples of 1000 (instead of just multiples
+ of 1024) and off-by-one values too (e.g. --max-size=8mb-1).
+
+ - The options --human-readable (-h) and --si change the output of the
+ --stats and the end-of-run summary to be easier to read.
+
+ - If lutimes() and/or lchmod() are around, use them to allow the
+ preservation of attributes on symlinks.
+
+ - The --link-dest option now affects symlinks and devices (when
+ possible).
+
+ - Improved the output of hard-linked and copied files when using
+ --link-dest, --copy-dest, or --compare-dest.
+
+ - Added two config items to the rsyncd.conf parsing: "pre-xfer exec"
+ and "post-xfer exec". These allow a command to be specified on a
+ per-module basis that will be run before and/or after a daemon-mode
+ transfer. (See the manpage for a list of the environment variables
+ that are set with information about the transfer.)
+
+ - When using the --relative option, you can now insert a dot dir in
+ the source path to indicate where the replication of the source dirs
+ should start. For example, if you specify a source path of
+ rsync://host/module/foo/bar/./baz/dir with -R, rsync will now only
+ replicate the "baz/dir" part of the source path (note: a trailing
+ dot dir is unaffected unless it also has a trailing slash).
+
+ - Added some new --no-FOO options that make it easier to override
+ unwanted implied or default options. For example, "-a --no-o" (aka
+ "--archive --no-owner") can be used to turn off the preservation of
+ file ownership that is implied by -a.
+
+ - Added the --chmod=MODE option that allows the destination permissions
+ to be changed from the source permissions. E.g. --chmod=g+w,o-rwx
+
+ - Allow the --temp-dir option to be specified when starting a daemon,
+ which sets the default temporary directory for incoming files.
+
+ - If --delete is combined with --dirs without --recursive, rsync will
+ now delete in any directory whose content is being synchronized.
+
+ - If --backup is combined with --delete without --backup-dir (and
+ without --delete-excluded), we add a "protect" filter-rule to ensure
+ that files with the backup suffix are not deleted.
+
+ - The file-count stats that are output by --progress were improved to
+ better indicate what the numbers mean. For instance, the output:
+ "(xfer#5, to-check=8383/9999)" indicates that this was the fifth file
+ to be transferred, and we still need to check 8383 more files out of
+ a total of 9999.
+
+ - The include/exclude code now allows a dir/*** directive (with 3
+ trailing stars) to match both the dir itself as well as all the
+ content below the dir (dir/** would not match the dir).
+
+ - Added the --skip-empty-dirs (-k) option that makes the receiving
+ rsync discard empty chains of directories from the file-list. This
+ makes it much easier to scan a source hierarchy using include,
+ exclude, filter rules, and only end up with the directories needed
+ to hold the resulting files.
+
+ - If the --itemize-changes (-i) option is repeated, rsync now includes
+ unchanged files in the itemized output (similar to -vv, but without
+ all the other verbose messages that can get in the way). Of course,
+ the client must be version 2.6.7 for this to work, but the remote
+ rsync only needs to be 2.6.7 if you're pushing files.
+
+ - Added the --super option to make the receiver always attempt super-
+ user activities. This is useful for systems that allow things such
+ as devices to be created or ownership to be set without being UID 0,
+ and is also useful for someone who wants to ensure that errors will
+ be output if the receiving rsync isn't being run as root.
+
+ - Added the --sockopts option for those few who want to customize the
+ TCP options used to contact a daemon rsync.
+
+ - Some minor documentation improvements.
+
+ - Updated some diffs in the patches dir.