Re: Delete archive time

[Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>]

On 05/05/12 02:58, Chris Webb wrote:
> 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!

I'm working on it. :-)

There's some nasty loose ends to fix around controlling the amount of metadata
tarsnap keeps cached but if you're willing to try a "will probably work well
but has a chance of running out of RAM" experimental version I can probably
send you a patch in a few days.

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Colin Percival
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Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid