Re: [Duplicity-talk] Colons in the file names causing problems, --time-separator

[Kenneth Loafman]

Olivier Croquette wrote:
> Edgar Soldin wrote, On 21/05/08 9:47:
>> try:
>>
>> Added --time-separator <char> to allow users to change the time
> 
> Thanks Edgar, I wasn't aware of this option. It actually isn't in the
> documentation (<http://duplicity.nongnu.org/duplicity.1.html>) nor in
> the command line help (duplicity --help).
> 
> It's only in the CHANGELOG:
> (<http://duplicity.nongnu.org/CHANGELOG>), which also states:
> 
>  New in v0.4.4.RC4 (2007/10/26)
>  Fixed issue in --time-separator where the current time string
>  was being set prior to setting the separator, causing errors
>  when trying to set the --time-separator for Windows systems.
> 
> 
> Does it mean that it's possible to change the separator at any time,
> without breaking past backups?

No, the next backup you do will be forced to be a full backup because it
can no longer find the previous backups.  Try to schedule the change for
when you want to do your next full backup.

...Ken

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