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bustash-put: Add flag to build index from ingested .tar stream
I have some existing bustash backups that I'd like to re-write, to delete some large temp directories that were accidentally included in the backups.
There is currently no command to that.
I also cannot us
bupstash get | bupstash put
and apply some filtering on the tar stream in the middle, because as described under TIPS that would disable the ability to
create a snapshot listing for other commands like
bupstash-list-contents
which I need.
So my feature request: That this snapshot listing can be added for any bupstash-put, constructing it on the fly from the tar stream.
I believe this is technically possible but wasn't added because the ingested tarball has some file ordering requirements that normal tar tools wouldn't adhere to. I don't have any ETA on this feature but I agree it would be very useful.