[tahoe-lafs-trac-stream] [tahoe-lafs] #1952: rename "tahoe backup" to "tahoe snapshot"

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#1952: rename "tahoe backup" to "tahoe snapshot"
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 Reporter:  zooko                        |          Owner:
     Type:  enhancement                  |         Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                       |      Milestone:  undecided
Component:  code-frontend-cli            |        Version:  1.9.2
 Keywords:  tahoe-backup usability docs  |  Launchpad Bug:
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 {{{tahoe backup}}} is a good tool! It does a really cool thing. However,
 it doesn't do "backup". Proof: there is no {{{tahoe restore}}}. If you
 were try to simulate "restore" by running {{{tahoe cp -r}}}, it would be
 unable to do all sorts of things that you expect from a backup-and-restore
 program, such as restoring symlinks, restoring mtime and ctime, restoring
 uid and gid, or delta-compressing between subsequent versions.

 Maybe we should rename {{{tahoe backup}}} to {{{tahoe snapshot}}}. Then
 people who want backup would stop complaining that {{{tahoe backup}}} is a
 crummy backup tool, they would start using a **good** backup tool (such as
 duplicati+Tahoe-LAFS), and they would start using the newly created
 {{{tahoe snapshot}}} tool for its cool snapshot-making behavior.

 See comment:13:ticket:1946, comment:14:ticket:1946.

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