--mirror Turn on options suitable for mirroring. This option turns on recursion ...

mh- on Aug 2, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bradley Manning and "hacker madness" scare tactic

    --mirror
           Turn on options suitable for mirroring.  This option turns on recursion and time-stamping, sets infinite recursion depth and keeps FTP directory listings.  It is
           currently equivalent to -r -N -l inf --no-remove-listing.

0xbadcafebee on Aug 3, 2013 [–]

I have read the man page. Note the quote I took from it.