Removing files on a limit access backup server

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Published on 2010-02-12T08:47:00Z Indexed on 2010/03/16 13:06 UTC
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I have an account on a backup server but it's full, so I need to clear it. The problem is that

It's only accessible via FTP, SFTP and Rsync (no shell)
Deleting lots of small files (as in, multiple full Linux installations), which I have to do, is undoable over FTP/SFTP because it cannot recursively delete directories in one command (Yes, most clients will fake this by issueing all the seperate commands for you but the overhead is huge and the process takes several days...well it crashes before that).

What do I do?

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