> 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 Sent from my iPad
