Backup dir - add date to deleted files

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Hi,

I use rclone to backup files from my NextCloud to pCloud account:

rclone sync Hetzner:/ pCloud:/NextCloud --checksum --progress --transfers=32 --exclude '*.DS_Store' --exclude '.DS_Store' --exclude '.Trash/**' --backup-dir=pCloud:/Deleted

Is it possible to add date (or some random string) to files that are deleted and moved to backup dir?

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hello and welcome to the forum,

this is an example of forever forward incremental backups.
it does not add the date to the strings, it puts deleted files into a dated subdir.
i find this better than renaming files.
tweak as needed.

rclone sync /home/user01/source remote:full --backup-dir=remote:incrementals/`date +%Y%m%d.%I%M%S`

but if you want to add some string to the filename, try --suffix, with or without --backup-dir

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Thanks! date +%Y%m%d.%I%M%S solve my problem.

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