'tahoe make-tarball' command #635

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warner · 2009-02-19T00:41:12Z

warner commented

2009-02-19 00:41:12 +00:00

It would be neat if there were a command to recursively copy a subtree out of a tahoe directory, but instead of writing the files to disk, it would write a tarball to stdout.

This would easily preserve all the usual unix metadata (in particular ownerid/groupid/permissions) which could be stored by a backup tool but which can't normally be set by the recovery tool unless it's working as root. It would also provide a way to handle things that aren't normal files (device nodes, symlinks, etc).

We could also implement the reverse direction: accept a tarball and store its contents in Tahoe.

It would be neat if there were a command to recursively copy a subtree out of a tahoe directory, but instead of writing the files to disk, it would write a tarball to stdout. This would easily preserve all the usual unix metadata (in particular ownerid/groupid/permissions) which could be stored by a backup tool but which can't normally be set by the recovery tool unless it's working as root. It would also provide a way to handle things that aren't normal files (device nodes, symlinks, etc). We could also implement the reverse direction: accept a tarball and store its contents in Tahoe.