Re: Delete archive time

[Michael Stevens <mstevens@etla.org>]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 04:54:39PM +0100, Clive Cox wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  We use tarsnap and are very happy with it. The only general problem I
> have is speed issues. As mentioned before on this list recovering
> archives can take a very long time for large archives. Also, I find
> deleting large archives also takes a very long time. The following took
> around 6 hours. Any thoughts?
> 
>  Clive
> 
> 
> # tarsnap -d -f system-2012-03-05
>                                        Total size  Compressed size
> All archives                        2950835565304    1264798812093
>   (unique data)                      222520960668     108610551454
> This archive                         539980302048     424535788030
> Deleted data                         285167328292     282647681303

I'm finding deleting archives is very slow and quite bandwidth intensive
as well.

I've been trying to clear up old archives and deleting about a year's
worth of one a day - it's been going around 36 hours now and using a
fair bit of bandwidth.

Michael