Ability to create .tar archives from the File Manager?

[nekohayo]

This is a very very minor feature suggestion, but maybe you will find it interesting.

It might be nice to offer ".tar (uncompressed, but faster)" as an option besides ".tar.gz" and ".zip" when right-clicking a folder (or multiple files) and using the "New > Create new archive" right-click (or File menu) action in the File Manager.

The usecase for this is when bandwidth or space isn't terribly scarce and you value processing speed above all; particularly in cases where compression wouldn't be very effective (ex: folders containing lots of encoded images or videos), or on under-powered machines.

Presumably, as Webmin (and Virtualmin, etc.) already has the ability to create uncompressed tarballs for backups etc., the backend code might already be there, waiting to be used.

[jcameron]

@iliajie could we add this to the file manager? It sounds like a good idea ...

[iliajie]

Yeah, I'll take a look!

[iliajie]

Alright, next Webmin and Authentic Theme releases will have support for plain tar, along side with xz and zstd compressions.