On 09/29/15 11:31, Tom Limoncelli wrote: > On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 10:17 AM, James Turner <[email protected]> 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. -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
