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Re: Wildcards in archive deletion

To: John Schofield <jms@schof.org>
Subject: Re: Wildcards in archive deletion
From: Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 10:51:13 -0700
Cc: tarsnap-users@tarsnap.com
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On 09/21/10 09:35, John Schofield wrote:
> Is it possible to use wildcards or some other method for specifying
> multiple archives? I'm using a different mechanism to back up a
> particular volume, and I'd like to purge all archives that start with
> "Example." (Example_2010-09-20, etc.)

Not yet.  You can pass multiple archives to tarsnap -d explicitly, though, so
tarsnap --list-archives | grep | xargs can probably do what you want.

-- 
Colin Percival
Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve
Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid

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- Wildcards in archive deletion
  - From: John Schofield <jms@schof.org>

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