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Hello I?m doing incremental backups with rsync to a remote server using --backup --backup-dir. I would like now to prevent the posibility that an intruder in the backed-up machine could try to remove the original data and the remote copy through the rsync service. Seems to me that this could be done with a new server option (--forced-options???) to force the --backup thing to be done, so

Wayne, I've been experimenting with the {pre,post}-xfer exec options ever since the original diff showed up in patches/ - fantastic stuff. My feature request/change centers around the new RSYNC_ARG# variables. Would it be possible to make these available as an array (ie: ${RSYNC_ARG[#]}) rather than discrete variables? If nothing else, it would greatly simplify chewing through all the args

...next to the stats: 2014/08/29 18:54:15 [62154] total size is 327,680,000 speedup is 68,739.25 (DRY RUN) but I don't think you can output stats at the receiver-side, and I don't think there's any other mention of the dry run in the receiver-side log. In my pre-xfer script, I see this: RSYNC_ARG1=--server RSYNC_ARG2=-nltrRze.iLsfx RSYNC_ARG3=--log-format=X RSYNC_ARG4=--bwlimit=256 RSYNC_ARG5=--delete-during RSYNC_ARG6=--delete-excluded RSYNC_ARG7=--force RSYNC_ARG8=--partial-dir RSYNC_ARG9=/in-progress/partial RSYNC_ARG10=--link-dest RSYNC_ARG11=/latest/data RSYNC_ARG12=--info=STATS2 RSYNC_...