On 7/15/10 8:42 PM, George Sinclair wrote:
> Kind of a goofy question, and I would never need to do this, but I'm just 
> curious if this is
> possible.
> 
> Can you run a numeric backup, but have it start with an older date? In other 
> words, capture all
> files since the previous lower numbered backup but only up to, say, a week 
> ago, and not up to
> the current time?

No.

To do this will require that the OS you are backing up keeps a copy of every 
version of every
file.  Otherwise, there will be files that were modified since that date and 
you will either
back up the modifications that were made more recently than you want or you 
will not back up
those files at all.

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