NAME¶
rsnapshot-diff - a utility for comparing the disk usage of two snapshots taken
by rsnapshot
SYNOPSIS¶
rsnapshot-diff [-h|vVi] dir1 dir2
DESCRIPTION¶
rsnapshot-diff is a companion utility for rsnapshot, which traverses two
parallel directory structures and calculates the difference between them. By
default it is silent apart from displaying summary information at the end, but
it can be made more verbose.
In the summary, "added" files may very well include files which at
first glance also appear at the same place in the older directory structure.
However, because the files differ in some respect, they are different files.
They have a different inode number. Consequently if you use -v most of its
output may appear to be pairs of files with the same name being removed and
added.
OPTIONS¶
- -h (help)
- Displays help information
- -v (verbose)
- Be verbose. This will spit out a list of all changes as they are
encountered, as well as the summary at the end.
- -V (more verbose)
- Be more verbose - as well as listed changes, unchanged files will be
listed too.
- -i (ignore)
- If verbosity is turned on, -i suppresses information about symlinks,
directories, and special files.
- dir1 and dir2
- These are the only compulsory parameters, and should be the names of two
directories to compare. Their order doesn't matter, rsnapshot-diff will
always compare the younger to the older, so files that appear only in the
older will be reported as having been removed, and files that appear only
in the younger will be reported as having been added.
SEE ALSO¶
rsnapshot
BUGS¶
Please report bugs (and other comments) to the rsnapshot-discuss mailing list:
<
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rsnapshot-discuss>
AUTHOR¶
David Cantrell <david@cantrell.org.uk>
COPYRIGHT¶
Copyright 2005 David Cantrell
LICENCE¶
This program 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 2 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 MERCHANTABILITY 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, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin
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