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Re: renaming of archives?

To: hvjunk <hvjunk@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: renaming of archives?
From: Graham Percival <gperciva@tarsnap.com>
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2021 13:44:06 -0700
Cc: tarsnap users <tarsnap-users@tarsnap.com>
In-reply-to: <DC69E800-550E-4DF2-85C4-111CD9EE0884@gmail.com>
References: <DC69E800-550E-4DF2-85C4-111CD9EE0884@gmail.com>

Technically, you can't rename an archive, because they're immutable (as a
security feature) [1].

However, you can reproduce the effect of "renaming" by copying an archive [2]
and deleting the old one.

[1] https://www.tarsnap.com/usage.html
[2] https://www.tarsnap.com/tips.html#copy-archive

Cheers,
- Graham

On Sun, Sep 05, 2021 at 10:07:47PM +0200, hvjunk wrote:
> Good day,
> 
>  busy with standardizing some archiving across my systems after I’ve found prunef https://git.sr.ht/~apreiml/prunef but the question is how could I rename all the archives that is different to a single uniform name? 
> 
> Hendrik

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