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
> > wrote:
> >> tarsnap -d -f archivename-2014010101 -f archivename-2014010102
> >> -f archivename-2014010103
> >
On 09/29/15 11:31, Tom Limoncelli wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 10:17 AM, James Turner 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.
On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 10:17 AM, James Turner 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. Also, I noticed that it fails the first time it
--As of September 29, 2015 3:06:39 PM -0400, Garance AE Drosehn is alleged
to have said:
On Sep 29, 2015, at 2:31 PM, Tom Limoncelli wrote:
On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 10:17 AM, James Turner
wrote:
tarsnap -d -f archivename-2014010101 -f
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
Every couple months I expire a bunch of old archives with commands like...
tarsnap -d -f archivename-2014010101
tarsnap -d -f archivename-2014010102
tarsnap -d -f archivename-2014010103
...
Each deletion takes a minute or so. Is there any way to speed this up?
I'd be willing to forego the
On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 10:14:38AM -0400, Tom Limoncelli wrote:
> Every couple months I expire a bunch of old archives with commands like...
>
> tarsnap -d -f archivename-2014010101
> tarsnap -d -f archivename-2014010102
> tarsnap -d -f archivename-2014010103
> ...
>
> Each deletion takes a