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Substitutions

Substitutions are placeholders which can be used in the backup definition configuration.

SubstituteCapturesPopulated variablePart of interpolated_timestamp
%Y4-digit Year$yearYear
%y2-digit Year$year_shortYear
%M2-digit Month$monthMonth
%D2-digit Day$dayDay
%h2-digit Hour$hourHour
%m2-digit Minute$minuteMinute
%s2-digit Second$secondSecond
%iDecimal number without leading zerosnonenone
%ISequence of decimal digitsnonenone
%xHexadecimal number without leading zerosnonenone
%wAlphanumeric characters and underscorenonenone
%XSequence of hexadecimal digitsnonenone
%vAnything a pattern variable would capturenonenone
%AAny sequence of charactersnonenone
%%Percent symbolnonenone
%#Hash/Pound symbolnonenone