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Re: Deleting old archives is slow



On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 10:14:38AM -0400, Tom Limoncelli wrote:
> Every couple months I expire a bunch of old archives with commands like...
> 
> tarsnap -d -f archivename-2014010101
> tarsnap -d -f archivename-2014010102
> tarsnap -d -f archivename-2014010103
> ...
> 
> Each deletion takes a minute or so.   Is there any way to speed this up?
> 

You can send one delete command for all the archives.

tarsnap -d -f archivename-2014010101 -f archivename-2014010102
-f archivename-2014010103

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James Turner