Allow unixtime-style timestamp extraction #30
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Are there plans to still merge this? |
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We would also be interested in this feature. @xolox Is this repo still maintained? |
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| usage of the ``-H``, ``--hourly`` option for details about ``COUNT``." | |||
| "``-t``, ``--timestamp-pattern=PATTERN``","Customize the regular expression pattern that is used to match and extract | |||
| timestamps from filenames. ``PATTERN`` is expected to be a Python compatible | |||
| regular expression that must define the named capture groups 'year', | |||
| 'month' and 'day' and may define 'hour', 'minute' and 'second'." | |||
| regular expression that must define a named capture group 'unixtime' or the | |||
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@rsommer can you provide better documentations or an example of how to use this new unixtime capture group? I had to read the test case to understand it. There is a section lower in the docs containing some Regex examples, Supported configuration options. That would be a good spot for more elaboration.
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I added a short example to the README file, hope that helps - otherwise this seems to be abandoned, since the original pull request was untouched for over a year :(
Some backup solutions prefer using UNIX timestamps for tagging backup files or directories. In order to enable the rotation of such files/directories some extra handling is added to enable scanning for UNIX timestamps in file- or directory-names.
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I assume you've worked around this, after all this time, but I published a docker image (here) of my fork (here), which includes your PR. I am not planning to maintain anything in pypi as it's outside my use case, but hopefully this is useful to someone. https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/aroberts/rotate-backups |
Some backup solutions prefer using UNIX timestamps for tagging backup files or directories. In order to enable the rotation of such files/directories some extra handling is added to enable scanning for UNIX timestamps in file- or directory-names.