Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/hammer Makefile cmd_snapshot.c hammer.h hammer.c

[Michael Neumann <mneumann@xxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     Have it create a name based on the current date and time and allow the
>     prefix to be specified on the command line using %s:
>
>     hammer snapshot <softlink-dir-in-filesystem>
>     hammer snapshot <filesystem> <softlink-dir>
>
>     So:
>
> 	hammer snapshot /usr/obj "/mysnapshots/obj-%s"
>
> 	-->  /mysnapshots/obj-20080625
>
> 	hammer snapshot /usr/obj "/mysnapshots/obj-%s-%s"
>
> 	-->  /mysnapshots/obj-20080625-1013
>
> 	hammer snapshot /usr/obj "/mysnapshots"
>
> 	--> /mysnapshots/snap-20080625-1013
>
>     Or something like that.

Matt, I went with strftime for ultimate flexibility on how
the timestamp is formatted, so that the following works fine:

  hammer snapshot "/mysnapshots/snap-%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S"
  hammer snapshot /obj "/mysnapshots/obj-%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S"

Regards,

  Michael