Perhaps you want to do it like this
for vol in `echo ${vol_list}`
do
echo “purge volume=$vol yes”
done | bconsole
or
for vol in ${vol_list}
do
echo “purge volume=$vol yes”
done | bconsole
On 20-06-2025 14:11, Yateen Shaligram Bhagat (Nokia) via Bacula-users wrote:
Hi All,
We are using bacula 13.x.
As part of the periodic garbage collection activity, we do purging and
truncating of the stranded disk volumes (volumes that have no jobs
associated with them) to conserve the disk space.
We do it running a bash script that first identifies such stranded
volumes (at times hundreds of them) and then it purges each volume
through a “for loop” with a bconsole command as given below:
*for vol in `echo ${vol_list}`*
* do*
*echo “purge volume=$vol yes” | bconsole*
*done *
However for every single iteration of the purge command in the loop
above, the script connects to the bacula-dir , which seems to be very
slow, hence inefficient.
Is there a way to connect to the bacula-dir only once and execute
the purge command for number of volumes in one go?
-Yateen
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