NAME

       rdup-up - update a directory tree with a rdup archive

SYNOPSIS

       rdup-up [OPTION]...  DIRECTORY

DESCRIPTION

       With  rdup-up  you  can  update  an  (possibly)  existing  directory structure with a rdup
       archive.

       The rdup archive has to be given to rdup-up's standard input.

   Username and uids
       rdup outputs both the username and uid, the receiving  system  (which  may  be  a  totally
       different  system)  checks  if  the  username and uid match. If the username and uid don't
       match the (numeric) uid is used on the file. The same holds true  for  the  groupname  and
       gid.

OPTIONS

       -n     Do a dry-run and do not create anything on disk.

       -t     Create DIRECTORY (ala mkdir -p) if it does not exist.

       -s N   Strip  N  path components from a pathname. If the resulting pathname is empty after
              this operation it is skipped. Be careful however with the following structure:

                  /foo
                  /foo/bar
                  /foo/bar/bla.txt
                  /foo/blork/bla.txt

              With rdup-up -s2 this will leave:

                  <empty>
                  <empty>
                  /bla.txt
                  /bla.txt

              And the last 'bla.txt' will overwrite the previous one, this  will  happen  without
              warnings.

       -r PATH
              This  option  is  related to the -s option, but works different. The string PATH is
              removed from (the beginning of) each pathname. With -r  /home/backup  the  pathname
              /home/backup/bin/mycmd  becomes  /bin/mycmd.  The same could be done with -s 2, but
              then you need to count the slashes. Note -s is always performed before -r.

       -v     Be more verbose and echo the processed files to standard output.

       -vv    Be even more verbose and echo processed file and the uid  and  gid  information  to
              standard output.

       -T     Show  a table of contents of the rdup stream received (ala tar -tf -).  With -T the
              directory argument is optional. -T unsets any verbose (-v) options.

       -h     A short help message.

       -V     Show the version.

EXIT CODE

       rdup-up return a zero exit code on success, otherwise 1 is returned.

AUTHOR

       Written by Miek Gieben.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to <miek@miek.nl>.

SEE ALSO

       http:/www.miek.nl/projects/rdup/ is the main site of rdup. Also  see  rdup(1),  rdup-tr(1)
       and rdup-backups(7).

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2005-2010 Miek Gieben. This is free software. There is NO warranty; not even
       for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

       Licensed under the GPL version 3. See the file LICENSE in the source distribution of rdup.