id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version resolution keywords cc launchpad_bug 1952 "rename ""tahoe backup"" to ""tahoe snapshot""" zooko "{{{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." enhancement new normal undecided code-frontend-cli 1.9.2 tahoe-backup usability docs tahoe-lafs.org@…