Re: Deleting old archives is slow

[Graham Percival <gperciva@tarsnap.com>]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 05:48:00PM -0700, Colin Percival wrote:
> 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
> > 
> > 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

To clarify for the list archives: --keep-going was added in Tarsnap 1.0.37.

Cheers,
- Graham Percival