Re: Possible bug with -af date switch?

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Hi,

you did good asking :) So far there is no bug here:

- -af option modifies the way -A option interprets its argument, but -af
does not receive itself any argument. Thus in your case, you should use

dar ... -af -A 2005/11/19-19:38:48 ...

or any of the other date you provided as example. However you already
provided -A option with "diff-1" argument. So you are asking
two incompatible things:
- - making a differential backup having as reference the diff-1 backup
   -> save only what changed since the diff-1 backup was made
- - making a backup only saving files modified after the provided date
   -> the older files are recorded as "unchanged" as if a differential
backup was made at the provided date and those file did not changed
since then.

Regards,
Denis

On 02/02/2021 01:57, Daniel Cox wrote:
> Hi everyone,
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> I was thinking to log a bug but thought I should check here first
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> I am attempting to run the command:
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> Dar –c diff-2 –af 2005/11/19-19:38:48 –A diff-1 –R file-location
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> Returns the error:
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> Parse error: Error while parsing –A argument as a date: Incorrect
> day of month.
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> The date is lifted straight from the man pages, I also tried some
> other dates and formats (substituted in place of the date above):
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> ·         ‘2005/11/19-19:38:48’
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> ·         2/2-14:59
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> ·         1580602498
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> Always returns the same:
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> Parse error: Error while parsing –A argument as a date: Incorrect
> day of month.
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> Is this a bug and should I log it, or am I misunderstanding the man
> pages?
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> Thanks a bunch…
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> Dan.
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