Re: limited keys (-r, -w), remote pruning

[Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com>]

Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com> writes:

> I think I'll make --fsck do a read-only fsck (reconstruct the cache directory
> and error out if there's anything broken on the server) and add a new command
> (--fsck-y, perhaps?) which needs the delete key and can clean things up on the
> Tarsnap server.

Is it easy to implement a 'preen' command which refreshes the cache
directory if necessary, i.e. if data has been written to the tarsnap server
since this machine last accessed it? This would be very useful for
efficiently scripting situations where multiple machines access the same
data.

Cheers,

Chris.