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Re: Using wildcards to remove archives
- To: tarsnap-users@tarsnap.com
- Subject: Re: Using wildcards to remove archives
- From: Bob Eager <rde@tavi.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 00:07:57 +0000
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On Thu, 14 Mar 2019 16:28:25 -0700
Craig Hartnett <craig.lists@subs4.sitnominedigna.com> wrote:
> Thanks, but wow, that seems unnecessarily complicated and
> time-consuming.
>
> I think I'll stop naming my back-ups with a time stamp and just use a
> date stamp, and then in my back-up script (which I run once daily)
> I'll use "date" to calculate a date x days in the past and delete
> that single archive. Since this machine isn't on 24/7 I'll have to
> manually remove archives once in a while, but that's preferable to
> the current situation.
Before re-inventing the wheel, take a look at ACTS:
https://www.tarsnap.com/helper-scripts.html