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authorben <ben@2b77aa54-bcbc-44c9-a7ec-4f6cf2b41109>2002-08-18 17:43:10 +0000
committerben <ben@2b77aa54-bcbc-44c9-a7ec-4f6cf2b41109>2002-08-18 17:43:10 +0000
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Added notes about the remote destination restore and no increment
restore bugs. git-svn-id: http://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/svn/rdiff-backup/trunk@183 2b77aa54-bcbc-44c9-a7ec-4f6cf2b41109
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@@ -240,15 +240,17 @@ See the
.B REMOTE OPERATION
section for more information.
.TP
-.BI "--remove-older-than " time_interval
+.BI "--remove-older-than " time_spec
Remove the incremental backup information in the destination directory
-that has been around longer than time_interval. The time interval is
-an integer followed by the character s, m, h, D, W, M, or Y,
-indicating seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or years
-respectively, or a number of these concatenated. For example, 32m
-means 32 minutes, and 3W2D10h7s means 3 weeks, 2 days, 10 hours, and 7
-seconds. In this context, a month means 30 days, a year is 365 days,
-and a day is always 86400 seconds.
+that has been around longer than the given time.
+.I time_spec
+can be either an absolute time, like "2002-01-04", or a time interval.
+The time interval is an integer followed by the character s, m, h, D,
+W, M, or Y, indicating seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months,
+or years respectively, or a number of these concatenated. For
+example, 32m means 32 minutes, and 3W2D10h7s means 3 weeks, 2 days, 10
+hours, and 7 seconds. In this context, a month means 30 days, a year
+is 365 days, and a day is always 86400 seconds.
Note that this option is incompatible with backing up or restoring and
must be run in a separate instance of rdiff-backup. Remember also