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- Location of the input (source) directory, i. e. the directory from which files are copied to create a backup copy.
Several instances of option -i can be used in the same command line. Besides directories, this option can take as its argument a name of a file that should be copied: one filename per each instance of -i option.
Use the @filename syntax to state more than one input directory or source file in the same -i option or to use a filelist as an argument for this option.

- Inclusive filename mask: process only those files that match this mask. If necessary, you can state several masks (separated by commas) after the same instance of option -m. It is also possible to use several instances of -m in a command line or to use @filename syntax. Note, please, if you include the '\' symbol (backslash) in the filename mask, the entire mask will be compared to the file relative path (counted off from the input directory).

- Exclusive filename mask: do not process files that match this mask. If necessary, you can state several masks (separated by commas) after the same instance of option -x. It is also possible to use several instances of -x in a command line or to use @filename syntax. Note, please, if you include the '\' symbol (backslash) in the filename mask, the entire mask will be compared to the file relative path (counted off from the input directory).

- Inclusive directory name mask: process only those directories that match this mask. If necessary, you can state several masks (separated by commas) after the same instance of option -dm. It is also possible to use several instances of -dm in a command line or to use @filename syntax. Note, please, if you include the '\' symbol (backslash) in the directory name mask, the entire mask will be compared to the directory relative path (counted off from the input directory).

- Exclusive directory name mask: do not process directories that match this mask. If necessary, you can state several masks (separated by commas) after the same instance of option -dx. It is also possible to use several instances of -dx in a command line or to use @filename syntax. Note, please, if you include the '\' symbol (backslash) in the directory name mask, the entire mask will be compared to the directory relative path (counted off from the input directory).

- Inclusive file attributes mask: process only files with the specified file attributes. It is possible to use several instances of -a in a command line. Thus, to process all the files with attributes 'hidden' and 'system' use the following command line: -a h -a s.

- Exclusive file attributes mask: do not process files with the specified file attributes. It is possible to use several instances of -ax in a command line. Thus, to process all the files but files with attributes 'hidden' and 'system' use the following command line: -ax h -ax s.

You can use the following parameters with options -a and -ax:

a or A - FILE_ATTRIBUTE_ARCHIVE
h or H - FILE_ATTRIBUTE_HIDDEN
r or R - FILE_ATTRIBUTE_READONLY
s or S - FILE_ATTRIBUTE_SYSTEM
n or N - FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL
c or C - FILE_ATTRIBUTE_COMPRESSED
e or E - FILE_ATTRIBUTE_ENCRYPTED

-tda
-tda-

- Process only those files, which size is smaller than specified one (in bytes). (Details).

- Process only those files, which size is greater than specified one (in bytes). (Details).

- Process only those files, which size equals to the specified one (in bytes). (Details).

- This modifier replaces logical 'AND' with logical 'OR' for command line options -LT, -GT and -EQ. (Details).

-D <date>

- Process only those files that has been modified (or created) after the specified date: files are selected by the date of their creation and last modification.

-DC <date>

-DLT <date>

- Process only those files that has not been modified (or created) since the specified date: files are selected by the date of their creation and last modification.

-DCLT <date>

Dates that are used with options -D, -DC and -DW should have the following format: DD-MM-YYYY[/hh[:mm[:ss]]]. You can use any non-numerical characters to separate fields, and the values of hours, minutes and seconds are optional: you can either skip them altogether, or specify hours only, or hours and minutes, or hours, minutes and seconds. Here are several examples to illustrate this:

-D 5-12-2002
-D 05-12-2002
-D 05-12-2002/20:20
-D 05-12-2002/20:20:20
-D 05x12x2002:20-20
-D 05/12/2002:20-20-20

It is also possible to use the @filename syntax:

-D @date.txt
-D @another_date.txt

-RD <relative_date>

- Process only those files that has been modified (or created) after the specified date: files are selected by the date of their creation and last modification.

-RDC <relative_date>

Relative date that is used with options -RD, -RDC and -RDW should have the following format: DD[/hh[:mm]]. The values of hours and minutes are optional: you can either skip them altogether, or specify days only, or days and hours, or days and hours and minutes. Here are several examples to illustrate this:

-RD 05 (process only those files that has been created/modified during the last 5 days)
-RD 05/06 (process only those files that has been created/modified during the last 5 days and 6 hours)
-RD 00/08 (process only those files that has been created/modified during the last 8 hours)
-RD 10/06:30 (process only those files that has been created/modified during the last 10 days, 6 hours and 30 minutes)
-RD 00/00:30 (process only those files that has been created/modified during the last 30 minutes)
-RD 00/03:45 (process only those files that has been created/modified during the last 3 hours and 45 minutes)

It is also possible to use the @filename syntax:

-RD @date.txt
-RD @another_date.txt

- This option is used in copyz, verz and dump modes to call the external archiver. The command line for the preferred external archiver is set in the backup.ini variable ExtZip:.
Here are some examples of -extzip usage:

nnbackup.exe copyz -i c:\data -i c:\another_data -o d:\backup\data -s -p -v -stats -extzip RAR
nnbackup.exe verz -n 7 -i c:\data -o d:\backup -s -x *.tmp -v -extzip 7z
nnbackup.exe dump 0 -i c:\data -i c:\another_data -o d:\backup\data -s -v -extzip 7z

- Do not display messages on console (quiet mode).
This option does not affect the info that are logged in a log file (when option -log is used).

- Logs the starting time of a backup session to a specified log file. Use of @filename syntax is allowed.

- Logs the finishing time of a backup session to a specified log file. Use of @filename syntax is allowed.

- Set the language to be used in messages on console and in log files.

- When performing synchronisation, compare not only the time of last modification of a file, but the time of its creation as well

- Copy not only new files and/or files with a later modification date, but also the files whose modification date has changed "in the opposite direction", or those whose date hasn't changed at all, but the file size or access rights were changed (use both the options -ad and -sa to copy the files, which access rights were changed).

- During synchronisation, generate and compare the cheksums of files (md5). If checksums of a file and it's backup copy are different, it will be copied.

- Synchronise all the files, except these that already exists in output directory.

- Exactly as -da option, with the following exception: first all the files that do not exist in the input directory are deleted from the output directory and only then the new and updated files are copied. Note, that usage of -delete-before option automatically turns on the -da option.

- Exactly as -da option, with the following exception: not only the files that do not exist in the input directory will be removed from the output directory, but all the files, that match the exclusive filename mask -x as well. Note, that usage of -delete-excuded option automatically turns on the -da option.

- During synchronisation, do not remove the subdirectories that no longer exist in the input directory but still are present in the output directory.

- Save all the files, that were overwritten during synchronisation to the specified directory.
In the case of onedirectional synchronisation the overwritten files from output directory will be saved. In the case of bidirectional synchronisation the overwritten files from input and output directories will be saved.

- When creating incremental backups, take in account not only the last modification time, but the time of creation a file as well

- Set the cluster size (in bytes). The default cluster size value is 2048 - this is the default cluster size for data CDs.

- Set the split level: the directory tree level starting from which nnBackup will take each folder inside it as an undivideable whole and will try to copy it to the package without splitting. The level '0' means the lowest nested level - all the subfolders of an input directory. The level '1' is one step higher in the directory tree nesting level etc... If the overall size of a subfolder, which is set to be undivideable whole, is bigger than specified size of a package, nnBackup will stop processing files and show a warning with the name and size of the folder(s) that do not fits to the package.

- Location of a list of files against which files in the target directory will be checked. All files that are not in the list will be deleted from the target directory. nnBackup does not check if the listed files actually exist. This option is used instead of -i.