One of my projects this winter break (besides enjoying family and studying for my preliminary exams) has been working on a little program to scratch an itch in my backup setup for our home network. I wanted a way to transmit backup files (in the current case, gzip-compressed file system dumps) from a VM to the host machine without the overhead of opening up a full network file system or shell access.

Thus, I give you rstash version 0.1 (very alpha!). It has a server which provides a set of drop boxes into which other hosts can write files. It allows no read access and no access to anything outside the box directories, so it easily handles this case.

Download it, poke it, make it cry, and please send bug reports!