Feature request: setting a historic start date

[Les Waters]

1. Linux Mint 18 Sarah.

2. deja-dup 34.2-0ubuntu1
   duplicity 0.7.06-2ubuntu2

3. (I don't think this technical information is needed as this post relates to a feature request, rather than reporting an issue.)

4. I am not reporting a bug, but submitting a feature request as below.

I think your Déjà Dup Backup Tool would be even better if it had the option to set a baseline/event date so that files older than that date are skipped.

I am currently using Déjà Dup Backup Tool to run a daily incremental backup to an attached 128GB USB stick. To avoid running out of storage capacity I have to exclude several large folders and add files to those large folders once they have been backed from an included and much smaller folder. Otherwise the initial 'baseline' backup would exceed the capacity of the stick. I don't want to backup 25 years of files, only files created or modified since 1st September 2016! Is the option to set a limiting date a possibility?

My wife has such a feature on her Windows PC using a proprietary program called Backup Maker (screen snip attached).

Many thanks for your consideration.

Best regards,
Les Waters

[Vej (vej)]

Hello Les,

the backend "duplicity" already supports this, as can be seen by the following excerpt of the manpage:

 --exclude-older-than time
              Exclude any files whose modification date is earlier than the
              specified time. This can be used to produce a partial backup
              that contains only recently changed files. See the TIME FORMATS
              section for more information.

This means, that irt would not be too hard to implement this feature (but I am not the one who can do this).

Best Regards

Vej

[Les Waters (les-waters)]

Thanks for getting to me, Vej. I hope you can find someone who can code this in!

Regards,

Les Waters

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Subject: [Bug 1639588] Re: Feature request: setting a historic start date

Hello Les,

the backend "duplicity" already supports this, as can be seen by the
following excerpt of the manpage:

 --exclude-older-than time
              Exclude any files whose modification date is earlier than the
              specified time. This can be used to produce a partial backup
              that contains only recently changed files. See the TIME FORMATS
              section for more information.

This means, that irt would not be too hard to implement this feature
(but I am not the one who can do this).

Best Regards

Vej

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Title:
  Feature request: setting a historic start date

Status in Déjà Dup:
  New

Bug description:
  1. Linux Mint 18 Sarah.

  2. deja-dup 34.2-0ubuntu1
     duplicity 0.7.06-2ubuntu2

  3. (I don't think this technical information is needed as this post
  relates to a feature request, rather than reporting an issue.)

  4. I am not reporting a bug, but submitting a feature request as
  below.

  I think your Déjà Dup Backup Tool would be even better if it had the
  option to set a baseline/event date so that files older than that date
  are skipped.

  I am currently using Déjà Dup Backup Tool to run a daily incremental
  backup to an attached 128GB USB stick. To avoid running out of storage
  capacity I have to exclude several large folders and add files to
  those large folders once they have been backed from an included and
  much smaller folder. Otherwise the initial 'baseline' backup would
  exceed the capacity of the stick. I don't want to backup 25 years of
  files, only files created or modified since 1st September 2016! Is the
  option to set a limiting date a possibility?

  My wife has such a feature on her Windows PC using a proprietary
  program called Backup Maker (screen snip attached).

  Many thanks for your consideration.

  Best regards,
  Les Waters

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