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.

1.1.11                                             13 Dec 2008                                        RDUP-UP(1)