I used a different backup solution before switching to Duplicacy. I like to mount my old backups and create just create backups from them to Duplicacy to avoid having to store two different backup types for a long time.
But I couldn’t find a way to specify the “timestamp” of the backup when running Duplicacy on the console. How do I do this?
I tried faketime, but this doesn’t work for duplicacy (I don’t know why):
$ duplicacy list --id i3
Storage set to sftp://123@456/backups/duplicacy
Snapshot i3 revision 1 created at 2022-04-28 14:20 -hash
While I started this backup with faketime:
faketime -m -f "@2020-04-30 19:32:22" duplicacy backup -stats -threads 4
You can do it.
I would avoid using faketime and would use a tag with the date/timestamp instead.
Tip: always use tags
@bkeeper well, the prune command won’t honer the tags set - would it?
I just want to import two years of backups from multiple systems and keep backing up on the same “branch” of backups and just slowly fade out the old backups.