[gpodder-devel] New utility: gpodder-backup
- From: thp at gpodder.org (Thomas Perl)
- Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 08:26:35 -0700
Hello there!
To ease reproducing bugs and trying out different user configurations,
I've written a small utility that takes care of creating and extracting
archives that contain not only the gPodder configuration, but also the
download folder (optionally making zero-size download files).
The utility is in the git repository (master branch) as
"bin/gpodder-backup".
There is also a manpage (view it with "man doc/man/gpodder-backup.1")
You can use it to backup/restore your config + downloads:
gpodder-backup --create backup.gpo.tar.gz
gpodder-backup --extract backup.gpo.tar.gz --purge
If you're just trying out things and want to remove the gPodder
configuration
and downloads, this utility also makes it easy (be sure to BACKUP
first!):
gpodder-backup --purge
And also use it to create a backup with the download files truncated, so
a developer can easily extract it without having to download huge
amounts
of data:
gpodder-backup --create backup.gpo.tar.gz --fake-downloads
I hope this utility will be useful for users who want to backup their
podcasts and also help us with bugfixing by allowing bug reporters to
easily attach their config + download folder structure to a report :)
Thomas
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