From f5601526279a5eeb7924569c2fd195dccee768dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Eischer Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2024 21:07:10 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] restore: document how to speed up dry-run --- doc/050_restore.rst | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/050_restore.rst b/doc/050_restore.rst index 5f351ae1d..1a920fad4 100644 --- a/doc/050_restore.rst +++ b/doc/050_restore.rst @@ -155,6 +155,10 @@ Files with already up to date content are reported as ``unchanged``. Files whose was modified are ``updated`` and files that are new are shown as ``restored``. Directories and other file types like symlinks are always reported as ``restored``. +To reliably determine which files would be updated, a dry-run also verifies the content of +already existing files according to the specified overwrite behavior. To skip these checks +either specify ``--overwrite never`` or specify a non-existing ``--target`` directory. + Restore using mount ===================