Re: Delete archive time

[Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>]

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On 04/18/12 06:34, Michael Stevens wrote:
> I'm finding deleting archives is very slow and quite bandwidth intensive
> as well.

The bandwidth used should be about 0.1% of the size of the archive you're
deleting; are you seeing more than this?

> 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.

Can you send me your --print-stats output?  It's possible that if Tarsnap's
deduplication worked extremely well when it was creating archives then the
0.1% overhead is significant -- I hadn't worried about it because I figured
it would always be much less than the time taken to originally create the
archives.

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Colin Percival
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