Re: Incremental backups based on timestamp

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Thomas Jacob wrote:
|>Maybe I will also add something to pass the date in a more human
|>readable manner than just specifying the seconds since Jan 1st, 1970.
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|
| Yes I think that's a good idea, but for scriptability there should
| always the possibility of feeding it with seconds since the epoch,
| so you can simply store the time() output of the local system somewhere
| before running dar.

Yes, that's right.

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|>Just missing an update of the man page ;-) to tell what option to use
|>and what argument to give it.
|
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| Yes, but if you want to add a feature to interpret different
| time formats, there wouldn't be much of a point to write a man page
| entry now ;)

:-D

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|>Seriously, I must congratulate you on the fact that you respected and
|>understood the global architecture of dar.
|
|
| Well, it was mostly pattern matching on the code of the
| filtre_sauvegarde
| function (sometimes with a French dictionary in hand ;-), I definitely
| haven't read any of the actual archiving code. Yet.

yes, that's correct, but blind pattern matching does not often make
things working...

|
|    Regards,
|      Thomas
|
| p.s.: Keep up the good work, dar looks like a really useful addition to
| my oss-toolbelt
|
|

Thanks, I appreciate. :-)


Cheers,
Denis.
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