backup API in 1.20

[Eric Snow]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 12:25 AM, John Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
> So as discussed, I think we still want to support a HTTP GET based API for
> actually downloading the content to the client. And the CLI can do steps
> like:
>  RPC to a request to create a backup (either this is synchronous and returns
> a URL, or the next step is to wait on the next request for when it is done
> to get the URL)
>  HTTP GET to download the backup .tar (.xz,,bz2,gz whatever)
> put those bytes somewhere locally and then exit.

That's what I understood as well.

-eric