Re: Delete archive time

[Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com>]

Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com> writes:

> Right.  And if the bits I'm working on right now turn out well this sort
> of "periodic cleanup" should be a good way of doing things, since deleting
> many archives at once will end up being faster than deleting them one by
> one.

Hi Colin. Have you had any joy with this yet? I have a number of machines
with several hundred almost completely identical daily archives stored which
I'm hoping to expire, but the time and bandwidth requirements of this with
the current version of tarsnap are somewhat daunting!

Cheers,

Chris.