Re: Deleting old archives is slow

[Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>]

On 09/29/15 11:31, Tom Limoncelli wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 10:17 AM, James Turner <james@calminferno.net> wrote:
>> tarsnap -d -f archivename-2014010101 -f archivename-2014010102
>> -f archivename-2014010103
> 
> It is good to know that this works.  However it doesn't seem much
> faster.

Whether it's faster depends on the amount of shared data between the archives.

> Also, I noticed that it fails the first time it hits a
> non-existent archive, so restarting after a failure requires a binary
> search or just reverting to doing them one at a time.
> 
> tarsnap: Archive does not exist: archivename-2014010103
> tarsnap: Error deleting archive

Hmm, I never thought of that.  Maybe we should have a --keep-going option?
https://github.com/Tarsnap/tarsnap/issues/77

As a workaround you could run `tarsnap --list-archives` and use that to filter
your deletion list.

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Colin Percival
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