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author | Jean Jordaan <jean.jordaan@gmail.com> | 2014-11-05 14:25:24 +0000 |
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committer | Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi> | 2014-11-30 13:54:08 +0200 |
commit | 340ffefcbdb46ebb38d3269944cdf6370d1adf10 (patch) | |
tree | 4ef7ee33bcd3e38bd7231a0992979f4df9df5826 /obnam.1.in | |
parent | bdc0ebedef8b28ca2255976040451f6e6ef878e0 (diff) | |
download | obnam-340ffefcbdb46ebb38d3269944cdf6370d1adf10.tar.gz |
Editing while reading
Hi there
I edited the manpage a bit while reading.
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From 8babcf9ee3854ecd459a468b291013916f4a8af4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jean Jordaan <jean.jordaan@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2014 14:23:52 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Editing while reading
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ lists the contents of a given generation, similar to .IP \(bu .B verify compares data in the backup with actual user data, -and makes sures they are identical. +and makes sure they are identical. It is most useful to run immediately after a backup, to check that it actually worked. It can be run at any time, @@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ These are exactly like normal generations, but are not guaranteed to be a complete snapshot of the live data. If the backup run needs to be aborted in the middle, the next backup run can continue from the latest checkpoint, -avoiding the need to start completely over. +avoiding the need to start over from scratch. .PP If one backup run drops a backup root directory, the older generations will still keep it: @@ -213,12 +213,12 @@ The command checks that data in the backup repository matches actual user data. It retrieves one or more files from the repository and compares them to the user data. -This is essentialy the same as doing a restore, +This is essentially the same as doing a restore, then comparing restored files with the original files using .BR cmp (1), but easier to use. .PP -By default verification happens on all files. +By default, verification happens on all files. You can also specify the files to be verified by listing them on the command line. You should specify the full paths to the files, @@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ but will be sorted to ascending order of time period before applied. (It is an error to give two rules for the same period.) A backup generation is kept if it matches any rule. .PP -For example, assume the same backup frequence as above, +For example, assume the same backup frequency as above, but a policy of .IR 30d,52w . This will keep the newest daily backup for each day for thirty days, @@ -376,7 +376,7 @@ for 72 such backups. In other words, it would effectively keep the last 72 daily backups. .PP Sound confusing? -Just wonder how confused the developer was when writing the code. +Just think how confused the developer was when writing the code. .PP If no policy is given, .B forget @@ -421,8 +421,8 @@ option. .B obnam will look for configuration files in a number of locations. See the FILES section for a list. -All files are treated as if they were one with the contents of all -files catenated. +All these files together are treated as one big file with the contents of all +files concatenated. .PP The files are in INI format, and only the |