[arch-devops] Cleaning up archive.archlinux.org

[Giancarlo Razzolini]

Em julho 5, 2017 15:57 Florian via arch-devops escreveu:
> My gut says 6 months should be enough, but feel free to disagree.
>

Agree with 6 months. More than enough time for issues to appear and people to
need the archive.

> Once we have decided how long data should be kept, we also need
> something to actually delete it. Deleting files from the ./repos
> directory should be simple, but the ./packages directory is more
> complicated because it is not nicely separated into directories per day.
> 
> Sebastien, do you have an idea about how we could delete old data or do
> you have a script for that?
> 

Well, find can do that. At least, I always used either atime/mtime to delete
older backups with find. Don't know if there is a better tool for this.

Cheers,
Giancarlo Razzolini
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