Re: [Duplicity-talk] Restoring a file deleted before the latest incremental

[Nate Eldredge]

On Tue, 22 Aug 2023, Nate Eldredge via Duplicity-talk wrote:

> Note that what counts is not the time stamp on the file, but the times at 
> which the backups were made.  This time is included in the filenames of 
> the backup archives (duplicity-full.xxx.manifest.gpg, .difftar.gpg, etc). 
> E.g. if your #1 backup (with the file present) happened on June 1, and #3 
> (with the file not present) happened on June 10, then you should specify a 
> --time something like June 5.  Regardless of the timestamp on the file 
> itself.  The Unix timestamps on the backup archive files are also 
> irrelevant.

And also note that the times in the archive filenames are UTC, not local 
time.  (The Z suffix is supposed to be a reminder of that, since UTC is 
also called "Zulu".)

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Nate Eldredge
nate@thatsmathematics.com