Re: [Duplicity-talk] Date override

[Nate Eldredge]

On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, Kenneth Loafman wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Nate Eldredge <address@hidden>wrote:
> > I would like to be able to create backups with dates different from the
> > current system date, and am interested in suggestions for adding such a
> > feature.
>
> There is an undocumented option used for testing, --current-time, that you
> could use for this.  This option takes an integer that represents the time
> that you want.  The int is a UNIX time() value, i.e. seconds since the
> epoch, 1/1/1970 at 00:00:00.  So, using the 'date' command, you should be
> able to convert from a time string to UNIX time.

That's great!  It works perfectly.  Thanks very much!

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Nate Eldredge
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