rdiff(1) General Commands Manual rdiff(1)NAME
rdiff - compute and apply signature-based file differences
SYNOPSYS
rdiff [options] signature old-file signature-file
rdiff [options] delta signature-file new-file delta-file
rdiff [options] patch basis-file delta-file new-file
USAGE
You can use rdiff to update files, much like rsync does. However, unlike rsync, rdiff puts you in control. There are three steps to
updating a file: signature, delta, and patch.
DESCRIPTION
In every case where a filename must be specified, - may be used instead to mean either standard input or standard output as appropriate.
Be aware that if you do this, you'll need to terminate your options with -- or rdiff will think you are passing it an empty option.
RETURN VALUE
0 for successful completion, 1 for environmental problems (file not found, invalid options, IO error, etc), 2 for a corrupt file and 3 for
an internal error or unhandled situation in librsync or rdiff.
SEE ALSO librsync(3)AUTHOR
Martin Pool <mbp@samba.org>
The original rsync algorithm was discovered by Andrew Tridgell.
rdiff development has been supported by Linuxcare, Inc and VA Linux Systems.
$Date: 2002/01/25 21:25:34 $ rdiff(1)
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RDIFF-BACKUP-FS(1) General Commands Manual RDIFF-BACKUP-FS(1)NAME
rdiff-backup-fs - Filesystem for accessing rdiff-backup archives.
SYNOPSIS
rdiff-backup-fs <mount_point> <repository> [repositories ...] [-option ...]
DESCRIPTION
rdiff-backup-fs is a filesystem in userspace that reads rdiff-backup archives and provides convenient access.
OPTIONS --debug <0-4>
Run rdiff-backup-fs in foreground with given verbosity of debug messages.
-f, --full
Store information about all revisions in memory. CAUTION: this may take a lot of memory if your archive contains many revisions.
-l, --last
Displays files from the most recent increment as directories, each holding every version of the file. CAUTION: this stores informa-
tion about all revisions in memory and therefore may take a lot of memory if archive contains many revisions.
-c <n>, --caching <n>
How many files retrieved from the rdiff-backup archive may be cached by filesystem. By default rdiff-backup-fs will cache up to 10
files. If this switch is set to 0, no caching will be done.
-r <n>, --revisions <n>
How many revisions should be stored in memory for on demand revision retrieval. By default rdiff-backup-fs will store up to 10 revi-
sions in memory.
-d, --directory <path>
Set directory for directory with temporary files. By default rdiff-backup-fs uses /tmp.
-v, --version
Print version of rdiff-backup-fs and exit.
SEE ALSO rdiff-backup(1)COPYRIGHT
rdiff-backup-fs is Copyright (c) 2007-2011 Filip Gruszczyski.
rdiff-backup-fs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published
by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MER-
CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
AUTHORS
Filip Gruszczyski <gruszczy@gmail.com>
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