tahoe-lafs/trac-2024-07-25

'tahoe make-tarball' command #635

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opened 2009-02-19 00:41:12 +00:00 by warner · 2 comments

warner commented

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

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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.

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tahoe-lafs added this to the undecided milestone 2009-02-19 00:41:12 +00:00

tahoe-lafs modified the milestone from undecided to 2.0.0

2010-03-25 02:17:34 +00:00

exarkun commented

2020-01-18 00:37:01 +00:00

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ticket:1030 was a duplicate of this (ticket:1029 is also related)

ticket:1030 was a duplicate of this (ticket:1029 is also related)

meejah commented

2021-03-30 18:40:46 +00:00

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Ticket retargeted after milestone closed (editing milestones)

Ticket retargeted after milestone closed (editing milestones)

tahoe-lafs removed this from the 2.0.0 milestone 2021-03-30 18:40:46 +00:00

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