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@…