Reuse old rsync argv if rsync has to be restarted.

[dss.git] / dss.ggo

diff --git a/dss.ggo b/dss.ggo
index b5eeec91ac89e32ed3ee3550fc50bad74737b345..09e345d8db8f270de4182cda8d6033b236407724 100644 (file)
--- a/dss.ggo
+++ b/dss.ggo
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # Licensed under the GPL v2. For licencing details see COPYING.
 
 package "dss"
-version "0.1.2"
+version "0.1.3"
 purpose "the dyadic snapshot scheduler
 
 dss creates hardlink-based snapshots of a given directory on a remote
@@ -110,11 +110,17 @@ groupoption "prune" P
 "Remove redundant and outdated snapshots"
 group="command"
 details="
-       A snapshot is considered outdated if it belongs to an interval
-       greater than the maximum number of intervals. It is said to be
-       redundant if it belongs to an interval that already contains
-       more than the desired number of snapshots. This command gets
-       rid of such snapshots.
+       A snapshot is considered outdated if its interval number
+       is greater or equal than the specified number of unit
+       intervals. See the \"Intervals\" section below for the precise
+       definition of these terms.
+
+       A snapshot is said to be redundant if it belongs to an
+       interval that already contains more than the desired number
+       of snapshots.
+
+       The prune command gets rid of both outdated and redundant
+       snapshots.
 "
 
 groupoption "ls" L
@@ -188,6 +194,21 @@ details="
        dss.
 "
 
+option "no-resume" -
+#~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+"Do not try to resume from previous runs"
+flag off
+details = "
+       Starting from version 0.1.4, dss tries to resume from a
+       previously cancelled dss instance by default. It does so by
+       looking at the status of the most recently created snapshot. If
+       this snapshot status is incomplete, its directory is reused
+       as the destination directory for a subsequent rsync run.
+
+       The --no-resume option deactivates this feature so that a new
+       directory is always used as the rsync destination directory.
+"
+
 option "rsync-option" O
 #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 "Further rsync options"