Re: Cron archive deletion / mass archive deletion

[Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.org.uk>]

On 09 Jul 2014, Bob wrote:
> I am using freeBSD and just started tarsnap backups. I would like to
> understand a reasonable way to do periodic deletes via cron. I have named my
> backups "lilybackup-yyyy-mm-dd-hh:mm:ss". My hope is to be able to delete
> backups older than 30 days.
> 
> Thanks,
> Bob

I don't know a fully automatic way to do this via cron but I've posted a
description of how I do it semi-automatically. This is on linux but I
think it should work for freeBSD as well. It's not very elegant and
could no doubt be improved, but it does work. See 

http://www.acampbell.org.uk/serendipity/index.php?/archives/685-Tarsnap-deleting-unwanted-archive-files.html
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