1rsnapshot-diff(1)                                            rsnapshot-diff(1)
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NAME

6       rsnapshot-diff - a utility for comparing the disk usage of two
7       snapshots taken by rsnapshot
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SYNOPSIS

10       rsnapshot-diff [-h|vVi] dir1 dir2
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DESCRIPTION

13       rsnapshot-diff is a companion utility for rsnapshot, which traverses
14       two parallel directory structures and calculates the difference between
15       them.  By default it is silent apart from displaying summary
16       information at the end, but it can be made more verbose.
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18       In the summary, "added" files may very well include files which at
19       first glance also appear at the same place in the older directory
20       structure.  However, because the files differ in some respect, they are
21       different files.  They have a different inode number.  Consequently if
22       you use -v most of its output may appear to be pairs of files with the
23       same name being removed and added.
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OPTIONS

26       -h (help)
27           Displays help information
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29       -v (verbose)
30           Be verbose.  This will spit out a list of all changes as they are
31           encountered, as well as the summary at the end.
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33       -V (more verbose)
34           Be more verbose - as well as listed changes, unchanged files will
35           be listed too.
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37       -i (ignore)
38           If verbosity is turned on, -i suppresses information about
39           symlinks, directories, and special files.
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41       dir1 and dir2
42           These are the only compulsory parameters, and should be the names
43           of two directories to compare.  Their order doesn't matter,
44           rsnapshot-diff will always compare the younger to the older, so
45           files that appear only in the older will be reported as having been
46           removed, and files that appear only in the younger will be reported
47           as having been added.
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SEE ALSO

50       rsnapshot
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BUGS

53       Please report bugs (and other comments) to the rsnapshot-discuss
54       mailing list:
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56       <http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rsnapshot-discuss>
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AUTHOR

59       David Cantrell <david@cantrell.org.uk>
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62       Copyright 2005 David Cantrell
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LICENCE

65       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
66       under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
67       Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
68       option) any later version.
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70       This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
71       WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
72       MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
73       General Public License for more details.
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75       You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
76       with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
77       51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301 USA
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81                                  2009-09-06                 rsnapshot-diff(1)
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