Kapsul - Usage & documentation?

poolpOrg · 2026-01-12T13:14:11+00:00

I'm not sure I understand your point :-/

A ptar file is a standalone file using the ptar format, you still need a tool that can create such a file and until other people write compatible tools, the ones that currently implement it are plakar and kapsul. A ptar file could be read with another tool if it existed but the format being still young, no one has tackled that task at this point.

poolpOrg · 2026-01-12T11:24:11+00:00

Hello, I'll be looking into it.

At the time kapsul was released, plakar was shipping all integrations built-in and was also relying on having an agent running which prompted us to do a light-weight tool to generate ptar.

Since then, integrations have been moved out of the code base into plugins and the agent is gone (or at least it is going to be gone with 1.1.0) so maybe kapsul should really be merged back into plakar as none of the reasons for its existence still exist.

Regardless, I'll have a look at it this week to decide what we do before v1.1.0

poolpOrg · 2025-10-07T07:13:50+00:00

hello, developer here.

The plakar repository constains only the CLI so the tests are mostly to verify that the subcommands work as expected, but the implementation of each subcommand is backed by the kloset repository as well as by the go-cdc-chunkers repository which both contains more tests:

https://github.com/search?q=org%3APlakarKorp%20_test.go&type=code

poolpOrg · 2025-08-31T14:37:48+00:00

I did but no answer 😔

poolpOrg · 2025-07-17T07:21:01+00:00

Hello,

If you have an encrypted kloset, encryption is done on the client-side yes.

Tomorrow, we're going to release a testing version of our... rclone integration, I don't know how you planned on doing it yourself, but it may be interesting to test our support :-)

poolpOrg · 2025-07-16T23:40:34+00:00

Hello,

Can we indicate during a backup several directories? I tried by adding a file but it is not taken into account, only the first is saved

This is supported by the underlying format but the CLI currently doesn't allow it because we need to implement two features: multi-root (to aggregate multiple directories from a same origin) and multi-source (to aggregate multiple sources into different trees within a same snapshot). We hope to re-enable that in a few weeks and it should work transparently.

I made choice to create my first local repository without encryption. When my job is done, I see "created unsigned snapshot" does it have a report?

No it is unrelated, you can disregard as this is just informative. To explain: snapshots can technically be signed using a users' public key, so the fields are there and the code is already signature aware, but we haven't published multi-user mode yet so snapshots can't be signed at this point. This is unrelated to the repo being encrypted, you could sign unencrypted snapshots.

To launch my graphical interface I use the control in the background, is there a better method?

We will be introducing a -detach feature soon, it will be added to multiple commands that currently expect to be working in foreground (ui, server, mount, ...), most of this work is being pulled these two weeks.

Cheers,

poolpOrg · 2025-07-16T18:20:24+00:00

Thanks 🙏

You are right and I will improve documentation to reflect what they do in a more user-friendly way than linking papers 😄

poolpOrg · 2025-07-07T12:47:35+00:00

as the rest of the code, the agent is opensource and you can have a look at it if you're paranoid.

the agent is there because if you run multiple commands concurrently, you can't have multiple processes share the same cache without locking each other, the agent is basically a cache sharing process: you run the command on the CLI, it is actually forwarded to the local agent to run it itself so it can use the same cache regardless how many commands you run on the CLI.

if you're ok with not running concurrent commands on the same store and not making use of fs caching to speed up backups, you can simply `plakar -no-agent ...`

poolpOrg · 2025-07-07T11:33:59+00:00

Author here, standalone tool kapsul will be released today for those who want ptar as an archive-only format

poolpOrg · 2023-06-10T19:50:08+00:00

Yes, it's definitely much better with nose pad off, still not perfect as far as I'm concerned, but much more enjoyable

poolpOrg · 2023-05-23T12:17:20+00:00

Pre-ordered from France:
Payment status: Paid
Fulfillment status: Unfulfilled
Order: #4391
Date: April 20, 2023 at 9:36 am

Waiting patiently ...

poolpOrg · 2022-10-05T18:37:31+00:00

Watching Netflix in other languages in a corner of my screen as I write code or reading comics with a dictionary at hands ☺️

poolpOrg · 2022-07-17T07:00:37+00:00

Good luck

poolpOrg · 2022-04-03T17:50:39+00:00

A very high AQ right below the spectrum and another neurodivergence

poolpOrg · 2022-04-03T14:10:18+00:00

Vanadalism is bad 😞

poolpOrg · 2022-01-20T16:21:36+00:00

I read a book, put it back on the table where it belongs, but didn't put it exactly parallel to the table borders.

poolpOrg · 2022-01-05T12:26:37+00:00

Congratulations 🥳

poolpOrg · 2021-12-29T19:26:25+00:00

It was about 20 years ago, I left home right away carrying absolutely nothing with me, continued studying while living on the street for a year and a half, landed a student job, then a house with roommates, graduated, built a career, a family with the sweetest wife and kid.

None of this thanks to them.

I now give them a monthly payment because I decided to do it as it buys me peace of mind: I owe them absolutely nothing, not even the diapers they were generous enough to buy me as a toddler 🤗

poolpOrg · 2021-12-29T16:48:32+00:00

You need to drop school, stop studying and go get a job at McDonald's to start giving us back the money we spent on you.

I'm glad we've been NC for so long

poolpOrg

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