X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/3473b5b4d88befb4370a1b861e5c2f414cf4ffc4..6c65e14634d9d2a7b103fe53aa7585b196c38227:/rsync.yo diff --git a/rsync.yo b/rsync.yo index 4a819ecf..3717b9e5 100644 --- a/rsync.yo +++ b/rsync.yo @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ mailto(rsync-bugs@samba.org) -manpage(rsync)(1)(3 Mar 2001)()() +manpage(rsync)(1)(29 May 2001)()() manpagename(rsync)(faster, flexible replacement for rcp) manpagesynopsis() @@ -395,8 +395,11 @@ are in the list of files being sent. This option can be quite slow, so only use it if you need it. dit(bf(-W, --whole-file)) With this option the incremental rsync algorithm -is not used and the whole file is sent as-is instead. This may be -useful when using rsync with a local machine. +is not used and the whole file is sent as-is instead. The transfer may be +faster if this option is used when the bandwidth between the source and +target machines is higher than the bandwidth to disk (especially when the +"disk" is actually a networked file system). This is the default when both +the source and target are on the local machine. dit(bf(-p, --perms)) This option causes rsync to update the remote permissions to be the same as the local permissions. @@ -459,7 +462,7 @@ If the sending side detects any IO errors then the deletion of any files at the destination will be automatically disabled. This is to prevent temporary filesystem failures (such as NFS errors) on the sending side causing a massive deletion of files on the -destination. +destination. You can override this with the --ignore-errors option. dit(bf(--delete-excluded)) In addition to deleting the files on the receiving side that are not on the sending side, this tells rsync to also @@ -470,6 +473,9 @@ transferring files to try to ensure that there is sufficient space on the receiving filesystem. If you want to delete after transferring then use the --delete-after switch. +dit(bf(--ignore-errors)) Tells --delete to go ahead and delete files +even when there are IO errors. + dit(bf(--force)) This options tells rsync to delete directories even if they are not empty. This applies to both the --delete option and to cases where rsync tries to copy a normal file but the destination @@ -575,7 +581,7 @@ temporary destination until they have a chance to be completed. If DIR is a relative path, it is relative to the destination directory. dit(bf(-z, --compress)) With this option, rsync compresses any data from -the source file(s) which it sends to the destination machine. This +the files that it sends to the destination machine. This option is useful on slow links. The compression method used is the same method that gzip uses.