Serialize to tarball?

[bdwheele]

We are going to start creating bags with a lot of A/V content that will not compress well and will be rather large (50G+). Is it possible to add an option to serialize the bag to a tarball in addition to zip and directory? Right now we're doing it as two steps.

[johnscancella]

In order to add this feature, a lot of work would have to be done on bagit-java (https://github.com/LibraryOfCongress/bagit-java) which is currently undergoing major changes. Thus it will not be done in time for you to use for you upcoming A/V project.

[bdwheele]

Thanks for the heads up.  I saw a bunch of commented-out code
  related to tarballs and was hopeful that it was an easy add.

On 12/06/2016 04:46 PM, John Scancella
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  In order to add this feature, a lot of work would have to be
    done on bagit-java (https://github.com/LibraryOfCongress/bagit-java)
    which is currently undergoing major changes. Thus it will not be
    done in time for you to use for you upcoming A/V project.
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[johnscancella]

No, there are a couple of problems with tar which is why it was removed. You can see the discussion about it here on bagit-java issue 22