volumes: Add support for exporting volumes to external tar

Adds support for transferring data between systems and backing up systems.
Use cases: recover from disasters or move data between machines.

Signed-off-by: flouthoc <flouthoc.git@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/utils/utils.go b/utils/utils.go
index a2268a30b..2e415130e 100644
--- a/utils/utils.go
+++ b/utils/utils.go
@@ -107,6 +107,16 @@ func UntarToFileSystem(dest string, tarball *os.File, options *archive.TarOption
 	return archive.Untar(tarball, dest, options)
 }
 
+// Creates a new tar file and wrties bytes from io.ReadCloser
+func CreateTarFromSrc(source string, dest string) error {
+	file, err := os.Create(dest)
+	if err != nil {
+		return errors.Wrapf(err, "Could not create tarball file '%s'", dest)
+	}
+	defer file.Close()
+	return TarToFilesystem(source, file)
+}
+
 // TarToFilesystem creates a tarball from source and writes to an os.file
 // provided
 func TarToFilesystem(source string, tarball *os.File) error {