Blitz Explorer

Service for search and get files inside a multiples .tar.gz files, but without extract entire tar.gz file and with cache(of indexed files and extracted files) for fast access.

Starting the service

For now we use the cargo to run and use the application(soon there will be a daemon):

Start the server tcp and mounted interface:

mkdir /mnt/mytars
mkdir /var/db/blitze
cargo run /path/to/my/tar/files /mnt/mytars

The service provide two ways to use the files:

1. TCP Server

Search and download the indexed files inside of yours tar.gz files over a tpc connection.

The protocol basically have two only commands: /search and /download

cargo run /path/to/my/tar/files /mnt/mytars

Search the files (/search/FILE NAME HERE):

nc localhost 3355 <<< "/search/my photo.png"

The return will be printed in the stdout.

Download a file (/download/you compressed file.tar.gz:PATH/TO/FILE.png):

nc localhost 3355 <<< "/download/photos2018.tar.gz:path/to/my photo.png" > my photo.png

The return of /download command is the binary content of file and we redirect him to a local file.

For start only the TCP server:

cargo run /path/to/my/tar/files /mnt/mytars --only-tcp

2. FileSystem interface(With fuse)

For more interactivity you can use a mounted file system, on /mnt/mytars folder, to consume yours indexed files using a File Manager(like the Dolphin) for access yours files or just use the ls, cp...

For start only the fuse:

cargo run /path/to/my/tar/files /mnt/mytars --only-fuse

To unmount your "tars" file system:

fusermount -u /tmp/mytars