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diff --git a/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 b/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 index 762e20e..dc114d4 100644 --- a/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 +++ b/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 @@ -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 |