> On Aug 3, 2020, at 6:15 AM, hvjunk <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Good day,
> 
> Wanting to clean selective old archives (ie. drop the dailies older than a 
> month, drop the weeklies older than 6months, drop the monthlies older than 
> 18months, drop the yearlies older than 5years ).
> 
> Question: should I delete them one by one, or  cheaper/beter/more-efficient 
> to bundle them all together in batches?

The documentation recommends batches: 
https://www.tarsnap.com/improve-speed.html#faster-delete 

I've got a fairly simple shell script for daily, weekly, and monthly pruning: 
https://github.com/pronoiac/tarsnap-cron/blob/master/tarsnap-prune.sh 

It does batches; it may or may not be helpful. 


> 
> And if in batches: Does tarsnap recover gracefully from connectivity failures 
> while in the process of deletion? Asking as, being >250ms away from the AWS 
> region/zone, I’ve noticed a “hang” on one of my mass deletions, and not sure 
> whether it was busy, or actually stuck and retrying
> 
> 

-James 

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