This tool is design to interact with the tau web portal (http://tau.nic.uoregon.edu). there are command for upload or download packed profile files form the tau portal.
tau_portal.py [-help] [--help] {command} {options} [argument]
Each command will initate a transfer to profile data btween the TAU portal and either the filesytem (to be stored as ppk file) or to a PerfDMF database. See tau_portal --help for more information.