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Re: Amazon storage/deletion question

To: Scott Wiersdorf <scott.wiersdorf@gmail.com>, tarsnap-users@tarsnap.com
Subject: Re: Amazon storage/deletion question
From: Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 08:05:08 -0800
In-reply-to: <20110208155623.GA5540@perlcode.org>
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On 02/08/11 07:56, Scott Wiersdorf wrote:
> I deleted my old tarsnap archives that I created prior to tarsnap
> v1.0.28; my question is whether Amazon storage deletes those files
> from its backups. Cloud storage systems vary widely in how they keep
> data--does anyone know if my old archives are truly gone?

Based on simple economic arguments, I'm sure Amazon does purge data which
has been deleted from S3 eventually; how long this takes exactly, I don't
know, however.

-- 
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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- Amazon storage/deletion question
  - From: Scott Wiersdorf <scott.wiersdorf@gmail.com>

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