Opened at 2013-04-23T03:52:01Z
Last modified at 2015-02-02T11:05:46Z
#1952 new enhancement
rename "tahoe backup" to "tahoe snapshot" — at Initial Version
| Reported by: | zooko | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | undecided |
| Component: | code-frontend-cli | Version: | 1.9.2 |
| Keywords: | tahoe-backup usability docs | Cc: | tahoe-lafs.org@… |
| Launchpad Bug: |
Description
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.
