One thing you can do is making this really slow. The free quota actually gives you quite a bit of quota (if your app is relatively small) so if you can stretch out your job you can purge a relatively small datastore at low cost.
I suspect what makes this expensive is datastore ops, not instance hours. Deleting an entity with 10 properties is 21 writes! There's not a lot we can do there ... -- Ikai Lan Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine plus.ikailan.com | twitter.com/ikai On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Patrick Twohig <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > I have a bit of old data that I want to clean out. I tried to write a > fanout operation to clean out some of the old data, but it's actually > manged to run out my budget in a few hours. I'm curious if there would be > a way to delete huge amounts of old data that isn't needed anymore. Is > there a tool or something that i can use to efficiently purge entity groups > from my application? Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > Patrick. > > -- > Patrick H. Twohig. > > Namazu Studios > P.O. Box 34161 > San Diego, CA 92163-4161 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
