Thanks for getting to me, Vej. I hope you can find someone who can code this in!
Regards,
Les Waters
________________________________
From: <email address hidden> <email address hidden> on behalf of Vej <email address hidden>
Sent: 07 November 2016 12:04
To: <email address hidden>
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).
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).
Thanks for getting to me, Vej. I hope you can find someone who can code this in!
Regards,
Les Waters
_______ _______ _______ _______ ____
From: <email address hidden> <email address hidden> on behalf of Vej <email address hidden>
Sent: 07 November 2016 12:04
To: <email address hidden>
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
section for more information.
that contains only recently changed files. See the TIME FORMATS
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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