Removing files on a limit access backup server
- by Bart van Heukelom
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?