Package: obnam Version: 1.6.1-1 Severity: wishlist Thanks for this great backup tool. It just saved me with my lost data which I accidentally erased some time ago and did not notice it until recently.
Currently, "obnam mount / --viewmode=multiple" normally mounts them under directory named after *genids*. That is a great UI but it could be even better. Here is my wishlist bug. For example, I have 5 directories 5562 6005 6096 6536 7856 $ ls -la total 36 drwxr-xr-x 51 osamu osamu 4096 Nov 24 01:27 . drwxrwxr-x 6 osamu osamu 4096 Dec 8 22:16 .. drwxr-xr-x 47 osamu osamu 4096 Nov 13 00:14 5562 drwxr-xr-x 47 osamu osamu 4096 Nov 13 00:36 6005 drwxr-xr-x 49 osamu osamu 4096 Nov 15 00:26 6096 drwxr-xr-x 49 osamu osamu 4096 Nov 16 23:40 6536 drwxr-xr-x 51 osamu osamu 4096 Nov 24 01:27 7856 lrwxr-xr-x 51 osamu osamu 4096 Nov 24 01:27 latest -> 7856 -r--r--r-- 51 osamu osamu 4096 Nov 24 01:27 .pid Displaying this under a GUI program requires me to sort by time. Not so intuitive name to have since most program sorts by ASCII order as default. As I understand, obnam keeps time stamp internally: $ obnam generations 5562 2013-11-13 00:12:26 .. 2013-11-13 00:14:49 (182287 files, 10241144501 bytes) 6005 2013-11-13 00:17:54 .. 2013-11-13 00:36:51 (182294 files, 10240565599 bytes) 6096 2013-11-15 00:16:04 .. 2013-11-15 00:26:49 (183616 files, 10357344673 bytes) 6536 2013-11-16 23:28:25 .. 2013-11-16 23:40:09 (183983 files, 10402683766 bytes) 7856 2013-11-24 01:27:05 .. 2013-11-24 01:27:26 (181936 files, 10926641948 bytes) If values of genids have different digits, ASCII sorting even gets confusing like: $ ls -la total 76 drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 May 6 2013 . drwxrwxr-x 6 osamu osamu 4096 Dec 8 22:16 .. drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Nov 17 2012 1025 drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Dec 19 2012 1152 drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Aug 25 2012 154 drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Aug 25 2012 218 drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Dec 30 2012 2323 drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Jan 10 2013 2496 drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Apr 2 2013 2674 drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Aug 25 2012 312 drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Apr 2 2013 3140 drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 May 6 2013 3582 drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Sep 1 2012 464 drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Sep 9 2012 619 drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Sep 24 2012 718 drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Oct 9 2012 822 drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Oct 14 2012 927 lrwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 May 6 2013 latest -> 3582 -r--r--r-- 25 root root 4096 May 6 2013 .pid (I know I can use "ls -lt" for the command line but I hope you understand.) So I wish to have mount points named with the timestamp text. It can be in any timestamp format which is ASCII sort-able. If you ask me, I suggest one of the standard ones used by "ls" or "date". I mean: $ date -u --rfc-3339=seconds 2013-12-08 14:15:02+00:00 $ date -u --iso-8601=seconds 2013-12-08T14:15:12+0000 $ TZ="GMT+0" ls -l --time-style=long-iso ~/.bashrc -rw-rw-r-- 1 osamu osamu 3389 2013-12-01 14:30 /home/osamu/.bashrc or simply like using UT and just with normal characters: 2013-12-08-141512 The option name to activate this feature can be something like --viewmode=multiple-time (my wishlist as above) 2013-12-08-141512 I also wish to have similar things like: --viewmode=multiple (current behavior) 2323 --viewmode=multiple-id (almost same as multiple but zero padded in front to make it sort-able) 0002323 --viewmode=multiple-time-id 2013-12-08-141512_0002323 (for time=2013-12-08-141512 id=2323 I think actual format may needs a bit more thinking. I hope you can come up with some intuitive string format. Regards, Osamu -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.11-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages obnam depends on: ii libc6 2.17-97 ii python 2.7.5-5 ii python-cliapp 1.20130808-1 ii python-fuse 2:0.2.1-8 ii python-larch 1.20131130-1 ii python-paramiko 1.10.1-1 ii python-tracing 0.6-2 ii python-ttystatus 0.23-1 obnam recommends no packages. obnam suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
