[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-   |    Version:  1.9.2
  cli                            |   Keywords:  tahoe-backup usability docs
   Resolution:                   |
Launchpad Bug:                   |
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Comment (by ClashTheBunny):

 Replying to [comment:2 daira]:
 >  I'd much rather enhance tahoe backup to record more metadata (and to
 tolerate errors better), and add a tahoe restore (or tahoe cp --restore)
 command to restore that metadata.
 I think that this would be nice for many reasons, including making Tahoe-
 LAFS more of a file system and less just an object store.
 >  * I like the transparency of a backup being a snapshot rather than some
 opaque thing in some weird format I don't understand, as it is for most
 backup programs.
 From the Duplicati website:
 > Duplicati is built using standard tools and formats. Un-encrypted
 archives are simple .zip archives. Encrypted archives are .zip archives
 that can be decrypted with AES Crypt. So, even without Duplicati all your
 data are belong to you :-)
 And from duplicaty's webiste:
 > Standard file format: Athough archive data will be encrypted, inside it
 is in standard GNU-tar format archives. A full backup contains normal
 tarballs, and incremental backups are tar archives of new files and the
 deltas from previous backups. The deltas are in the format produced by
 librsync's command-line utility rdiff.

 > Although you should never have to look at a duplicity archive manually,
 if the need should arise they can be produced and processed using GnuPG,
 rdiff, and tar.

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