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

[Mads Sülau Jørgensen <mads@sulau.dk>]

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com> wrote:
> ... you really shouldn't be doing this.  Reconstructing the Tarsnap cache
> directory can take a non-trivial amount of bandwidth if you have lots of
> archives stored, so you'll generally be much better off with each system
> storing data independently.

I'm fairly sure that everyone agrees, that the current "solution" to
delete archives from a different machine than the one that normally
runs the backups is bad for business.

I think a solution to prune/purge archives from a different machine is
needed, which iirc would need to be able to fetch a list of archive
names, and delete an archive. Is there anyway this could be done with
the current architecture (e.g. a read only fsck)?

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Mads Sülau Jørgensen
mads@sulau.dk