Hi Bill,
Your script worked like a champ and deleted hundreds of volumes from the
catalog. Thanks a bunch for the quick, precise response. It was exactly what I
needed.
--Shawn
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From: Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users <bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Friday, June 9, 2023 8:45 AM
To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net <bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Bacula-users] Deleting all volumes for a specific SD
from the catalog
On 6/9/23 08:35, Shawn Rappaport wrote:
> I have two disk-based SD servers, which are separate physical servers from
> our Director server. The hostnames are:
> bac-sd01-az - SD server 1
> bac-sd02-az - SD server 2
> bac-dir-az - Director server
>
> The disk volumes are named uniquely on the two SD servers:
> bac-sd01-az - volume names start with az- (e.g.: az-monthly-1, az-weekly-1,
> az-daily-1, etc.)
> bac-sd02-az -volume names start with az2- (e.g.: az2-monthly-1, az2-weekly-1,
> az2-daily-1, etc.)
>
> Due to running low on disk space on bac-sd01-az, I installed and cutover to a
> second SD server with more disk space,
> bac-sd02-az. I did this quite a while ago and no longer need the volumes in
> my catalog that were on bac-sd01-az. To make
> matters even more fun, bac-sd02-az is now running low on disk space, so I
> installed larger disks in bac-sd01-az and rebuilt
> it. I would now like to cut back over to bac-sd01-az.
>
> Before I do the cutover, I would like to delete all entries that may still
> exist in my catalog for volumes that had been
> stored on bac-sd01-az, so I can start using it from scratch.
>
> I don't need a script that handles deleting the volumes from bac-sd01-az, as
> all of the volumes are already gone. However,
> I'm wondering what bconsole command(s) I can run to delete all volumes
> starting with az- from my catalog, while leaving
> everything starting with az2- intact. That way, I can cut back over to
> bac-sd01-az, without having stale entries in the catalog.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help!
>
> --Shawn
Hello Sean,
It is pretty straight forward to do in a small script:
----8<----
#!/bin/bash
for vol in $(echo "list media" | bconsole | grep "az-[mwd]" | awk '{print
$4}'); do
echo "Working on Volume: $vol"
# echo "delete yes volume=$vol" | bconsole
done
----8<----
Then rm then the az-* from disk
Please test and then uncomment the `delete yes volume=` line to actually delete
the volumes from the catalog. ;)
Hope this helps.
*note: I wrote this on-the-fly, in my email client, and while I was in a Zoom
presentation so there may be a rogue typo or
two. :)
Best regards,
Bill
--
Bill Arlofski
w...@protonmail.com
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