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authorWayne Davison <wayned@samba.org>2010-02-06 13:32:47 -0800
committerWayne Davison <wayned@samba.org>2010-07-03 09:22:13 -0700
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Mention what -XX (repeated --xattrs) does.
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@@ -978,6 +978,10 @@ super-user copies all namespaces except system.*. A normal user only copies
the user.* namespace. To be able to backup and restore non-user namespaces as
a normal user, see the bf(--fake-super) option.
+Note that this option does not copy rsyncs special xattr values (e.g. those
+used by bf(--fake-super)) unless you repeat the option (e.g. -XX). This
+"copy all xattrs" mode cannot be used with bf(--fake-super).
+
dit(bf(--chmod)) This option tells rsync to apply one or more
comma-separated "chmod" strings to the permission of the files in the
transfer. The resulting value is treated as though it were the permissions