Re: A small addition to the manpage and "clone mode" suggestion

2017-07-02 Thread Kevin Korb via rsync
Note that --sparse does not guarantee that the files will be the same size. Just that they will be as sparse as rsync can make them regardless of how/if the source file is sparse. OTOH, I would suggest lengthening that line even more by showing the long options. Most of those options have very

Re: [Bug 12819] [PATCH] sync() on receiving side for data consistency

2017-07-02 Thread Karl O. Pinc via rsync
On Fri, 16 Jun 2017 12:34:40 +0200 Ben RUBSON via rsync wrote: > > On 15 Jun 2017, at 19:29, Karl O. Pinc via rsync > > wrote: > > The problem is that the --server (and, especially, > > --daemon) documentation has gone away. Or at least > > left

A small addition to the manpage and "clone mode" suggestion

2017-07-02 Thread Peter via rsync
Dear developers, In the rsync's manpage, there is a line describing the "archive mode" option: -a, --archive archive mode; equals -rlptgoD (no -H,-A,-X) Archive mode means that all data is backed up sensibly while the same doesn't apply for all metadata (hence the mentioned -H, -A