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Merge pull request #1010 from ThomasWaldmann/doc-tags

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borg create help: document format tags, fixes #894
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@ -997,6 +997,9 @@ def build_parser(self, args=None, prog=None):
'.checkpoint.N' (with N being a number), because these names are used for
checkpoints and treated in special ways.
In the archive name, you may use the following format tags:
{now}, {utcnow}, {fqdn}, {hostname}, {user}, {pid}
To speed up pulling backups over sshfs and similar network file systems which do
not provide correct inode information the --ignore-inode flag can be used. This
potentially decreases reliability of change detection, while avoiding always reading

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@ -301,10 +301,9 @@ Examples
# Even slower, even higher compression (N = 0..9)
$ borg create --compression lzma,N /path/to/repo::arch ~
# Format tags available for archive name:
# {now}, {utcnow}, {fqdn}, {hostname}, {user}, {pid}
# add short hostname, backup username and current unixtime (seconds from epoch)
$ borg create /path/to/repo::{hostname}-{user}-{now:%s} ~
# Use short hostname, user name and current time in archive name
$ borg create /path/to/repo::{hostname}-{user}-{now} ~
$ borg create /path/to/repo::{hostname}-{user}-{now:%Y-%m-%d_%H:%M:%S} ~
.. include:: usage/extract.rst.inc