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Re: Deleting old archives is slow

To: Garance AE Drosehn <gadcode@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: Deleting old archives is slow
From: Tom Limoncelli <tal@whatexit.org>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 15:31:40 -0400
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Thanks, Garance. That's all good advice.  A similar thing that I
recommend to new sysadmins is that their scripts halt on some
threshold. For example, if the number of archives to delete is more
than something reasonable (in my case... 10) then halt or ask for
confirmation.

In this case I'm writing something that is fully automated so doing
all those kind of checks is very important.

Best,
Tom Limoncelli

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References:
- Deleting old archives is slow
  - From: Tom Limoncelli <tal@whatexit.org>
- Re: Deleting old archives is slow
  - From: James Turner <james@calminferno.net>
- Re: Deleting old archives is slow
  - From: Tom Limoncelli <tal@whatexit.org>
- Re: Deleting old archives is slow
  - From: Garance AE Drosehn <gadcode@earthlink.net>

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