id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	launchpad_bug
78	Cater to rsync as a target Tahoe client.	nejucomo	somebody	"Imagine a scenario where a sysadmin of a large enterprise network needs to perform routine backups, and does so by rsyncing from many clients to one large raid storage device.

What if they could replace the single large raid with a vdrive, and run tahoe storage nodes on each workstation, and have all of the client-side rsync automation work without change?

If this use case is as common and the Tahoe replacement as useful as I believe it to be, it would behoove Tahoe to cater to rsync for both publication and retrieval.

One sufficient support feature would be file-system emulation (fuse, WebDav, ...) which rsync can already use.  However, it may also be worthwhile to implement an rsync-specialized interface to Tahoe if the efficiency-gains-to-development-time tradeoff was right."	enhancement	new	minor	undecided	code	0.4.0		enterprise backup encoding rsync	tahoe-lafs.org@…