#78 new enhancement

Cater to rsync as a target Tahoe client. — at Initial Version

Reported by: nejucomo Owned by: somebody
Priority: minor Milestone: undecided
Component: code Version: 0.4.0
Keywords: enterprise backup encoding rsync Cc: tahoe-lafs.org@…
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Description

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.

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