Re: Delete archive time

[Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com>]

Mark Smith <mark@bumptechnologies.com> writes:

> I'm moving the bulk of our backup operations to locally encrypted
> files stored on S3 because tarsnap just doesn't quite work for me with
> large amounts of data in our production environment. Our nightly
> backups keep failing because the delete-old-nightly job is still
> running 12-18 hours later. :(

Regrettably, I'm also having to look at alternative solutions for my company
backups because of this. Very slow restore, very slow archive deletion, and
the difficulty of constructing any sensible solution to expire old archives
from a different, privileged control machine (without --fscking every time)
make it hard to use tarsnap beyond the simple case of an independent machine
whose backups are administered manually.

Cheers,

Chris.