Phil Carinhas writes: > I'm trying to figure out what rsync transfers actually do. > I see several undocumented options in the commands: > > --server > --sender > > Then at the end i see " . /share" > > How does rsync know where to send the data? Is the --server > flag telling it to pull /share back to localhost? Where can I > find documentation for these "undocumented" options?
You are seeing the command that runs half of the rsync connection; ie: the remote (sender) end. When invoked in this manner, rsync at this point only knows to communicate with the local end (receiver) via pipes. The options --server --sender are internal to rsync and tell the remote rsync that it should behave as one half of the connection. There is no meaningful way to invoke rsync manually with these options. They don't appear in the man page, so you need to read the source code to learn more. Craig ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
