I can run restic find pattern without problem.
I want to add more options to the command, but I just can’t figure out how to use them.
For example when I run /usr/bin/restic --verbose=2 --cleanup-cache find --newest bashrc I get an error:
$ restic find --newest bashrc
Repository: rclone:sftp:/home/remoteuser/repository/directory
Fatal: wrong number of arguments
I works if I use other option: restic find --long bashrc
I’m using 0.9.5:
$ /usr/bin/restic version
restic 0.9.5 compiled with go1.12.2 on linux/amd64
What am I missing here ?
See restic find --help
Both flags, newest as well as oldest, require you to enter a string in the form of a date or time and then you provide the search query.
-N, --newest string newest modification date/time
-O, --oldest string oldest modification date/time
I am not quiet sure yet what the format would be of the date/time string.
But if you want to search for that file only in the latest snapshot, you simply can put the ID of the snapshot in the find command.
I did see the help, but it’s not clear what “string” is. I was thinking it was the search pattern.
I did few try using a date format YYYY-MM-DD and I was able to get some results.
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--oldest: It seems to return match not older than the specified date
$ restic find --long --oldest 2019-09-01 bashrc
repository 8fe564d8 opened successfully, password is correct
Found matching entries in snapshot 13268788
-rw-rw-r-- 1000 1000 7825 2019-10-02 20:28:05 /home/username/.dotfiles/bashrc
Found matching entries in snapshot 55ae89ed
-rw-rw-r-- 1000 1000 7804 2019-09-24 21:01:14 /home/username/.dotfiles/bashrc
Found matching entries in snapshot 69e29919
-rw-rw-r-- 1000 1000 8098 2019-10-18 20:27:57 /home/username/.dotfiles/bashrc
Found matching entries in snapshot 9ab24880
-rw-rw-r-- 1000 1000 8024 2019-10-22 19:10:47 /home/username/.dotfiles/bashrc
Found matching entries in snapshot a15379cb
-rw-rw-r-- 1000 1000 7766 2019-09-23 19:01:34 /home/username/.dotfiles/bashrc
Found matching entries in snapshot b7a4e597
-rw-rw-r-- 1000 1000 7825 2019-10-02 20:28:05 /home/username/.dotfiles/bashrc
Found matching entries in snapshot c8d50926
-rw-rw-r-- 1000 1000 8098 2019-10-18 20:27:57 /home/username/.dotfiles/bashr
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--newest: It seems to return match not newer than the specified date
$ restic find --long --newest 2019-04-01 bashrc
repository 8fe564d8 opened successfully, password is correct
Found matching entries in snapshot 10190d7b
-rw-rw-r-- 1000 1000 7284 2019-03-23 09:46:54 /home/username/.dotfiles/bashrc
Found matching entries in snapshot 3a98dd04
-rw-rw-r-- 1000 1000 7284 2019-03-23 09:46:54 /home/username/.dotfiles/bashrc
Found matching entries in snapshot 684e2622
-rw-rw-r-- 1000 1000 7284 2019-03-23 09:46:54 /home/username/.dotfiles/bashrc
Found matching entries in snapshot 71814742
-rw-rw-r-- 1000 1000 7284 2019-03-23 09:46:54 /home/username/.dotfiles/bashrc
Found matching entries in snapshot ba1c40a7
-rw-rw-r-- 1000 1000 7284 2019-03-23 09:46:54 /home/username/.dotfiles/bashrc
Found matching entries in snapshot e31ce0fc
-rw-rw-r-- 1000 1000 7284 2019-03-23 09:46:54 /home/username/.dotfiles/bashrc
Expected date format seems to be the one I used. I tried with YYYY/MM/DD, but it failed with Fatal: unable to parse time: "2019/04/01"
I’m not sure if my understanding of each parameter is correct. Hopefully someone will be able to confirm. Also some clarification in the doc/help would be great.
I believe it would be RFC8601 or RFC3339 (which is similar) to pass the date and time - just because that’s what my gut tells me fd0 would use ^^
So / won’t work then.
You’re definitely are more than welcome to write some doc and make a PR to add it 
It would most certainly be beneficial to have something which explains this feature.
I can give a try at update the doc. Is there a “guide” I can follow to do it ?
The date formats that restic supports are as follows:
“2006-01-02”,
“2006-01-02 15:04”,
“2006-01-02 15:04:05”,
“2006-01-02 15:04:05 -0700”,
“2006-01-02 15:04:05 MST”,
“02.01.2006”,
“02.01.2006 15:04”,
“02.01.2006 15:04:05”,
“02.01.2006 15:04:05 -0700”,
“02.01.2006 15:04:05 MST”,
“Mon Jan 2 15:04:05 -0700 MST 2006”,
This is based on the code on GitHub: restic/cmd/restic/cmd_find.go at 060a44202fb0da073414e6c6672a5abfc28ac9ed · restic/restic · GitHub
I don’t know Go very well, but apparently rather than the usual c-style strftime() string, Go uses a sample date to specify a date format: