-r, --restore-as-of restore_time
Restore the specified directory as it was as of restore_time.
See the TIME FORMATS section for more information on the format
of restore_time, and see the RESTORING section for more informa-
tion on restoring.
TIME FORMATS
rdiff-backup uses time strings in two places. Firstly, all of the
increment files rdiff-backup creates will have the time in their file-
names in the w3 datetime format as described in a w3 note at
http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime. Basically they look like
"2001-07-15T04:09:38-07:00", which means what it looks like. The
"-07:00" section means the time zone is 7 hours behind UTC.
Secondly, the -r, --restore-as-of, and --remove-older-than options take
a time string, which can be given in any of several formats:
1. the string "now" (refers to the current time)
2. a sequences of digits, like "123456890" (indicating the time in
seconds after the epoch)
3. A string like "2002-01-25T07:00:00+02:00" in datetime format
4. An interval, which is a number followed by one of the characters
s, m, h, D, W, M, or Y (indicating seconds, minutes, hours,
days, weeks, months, or years respectively), or a series of such
pairs. In this case the string refers to the time that preceded
the current time by the length of the interval. For instance,
"1h78m" indicates the time that was one hour and 78 minutes ago.
The calendar here is unsophisticated: a month is always 30 days,
a year is always 365 days, and a day is always 86400 seconds.
5. A date format of the form YYYY/MM/DD, YYYY-MM-DD, MM/DD/YYYY, or
MM-DD-YYYY, which indicates midnight on the day in question,
relative to the current timezone settings. For instance,
"2002/3/5", "03-05-2002", and "2002-3-05" all mean March 5th,
2002.
6. A backup session specification which is a non-negative integer
followed by 'B'. For instance, '0B' specifies the time of the
current mirror, and '3B' specifies the time of the 3rd newest
increment.
