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

[Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>]

Hi,

On 08/29/10 19:21, Mathew Davies wrote:
> Mads Sülau Jørgensen <mads@...> writes:
>> 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)?
> 
> I'm looking for this feature too. My server has a read/write only key,
> so it's impossible to remove old entries remotely without causing the
> --fsck message.

In tarsnap 1.0.27 you can run --fsck on a machine where you only have the
read and write keys.  (The old --fsck is now called --fsck-prune, and the
new --fsck is a read-only fsck.)

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Colin Percival
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