Specifying date or ability to change it.

[ariselseng]

Hi,
First I would like to say that attic is fantastic and such an awesome piece of software.

I am currently migrating hundreds of backups from my previous backup system (rsync based).
I had a system where I kept the backup every day for the last 30 days, and after that 1 backup per month was kept.

I can not use the prune command to achieve this because the date specified for each backup is when the migration happened and not when the actual backup was taken, which for some of them was years ago. I can of course parse the list of backups and make my own prune command but having the ability to specify date somehow would be of great value.

[wavexx]

To achieve the same effect, I've used the "faketime" command successfully.

[ariselseng]

Wow, that's awesome. That's a nice solution to my very specific problem. Thank you.

[wavexx]

On 12/09/2014 09:01 AM, Ari wrote:

Wow, that's awesome. That's a nice solution to my very specific problem. Thank you.

I wrote here because I assume other people are trying to perform an
import from other backup systems. I did it as well.

I wouldn't introduce another flag in attic for this, given the reason.
faketime is a pretty solid solution, and it's used frequently for
testing. I would though mention it, maybe in the FAQ.

[ThomasWaldmann]

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/faketime.1.html

+1 for FAQ item.

[ThomasWaldmann]

duplicate of #263

[ThomasWaldmann]

please close as duplicate.