Thanks for that, I'll give it a try. I also found some volumes marked as
'Error' so I could use the same technique.
Best
Chris
On Mon, 21 Feb 2022, 11:25 am Josip Deanovic, <djosip+n...@linuxpages.net>
wrote:
> On 2022-02-21 11:46, Chris Wilkinson wrote:
> > Following a failure of a storage device, I have a number of records
> > marked as ‘read-only’ in the database.
> >
> > The backup jobs has been moved to a new storage so these records are
> > now redundant and I’d like to clean them out.
> >
> > I looked through bconsole commands but didn’t find a command to do
> > this except by finding volumes with read only status and deleting them
> > one by one. Is there a semi-automated way to find and delete read-only
> > records?
>
>
> Hi Chris
>
> I think that bconsole delete command would not accept more than
> one volume name or volume id.
>
> You could get the list of your read-only volumes from the database
> and then use shell one-liner which would send the delete command
> through bconsole in a loop.
>
> Instead of retrieving the list of volumes from the database you
> could also get them from bconsole + some grepping or awking.
>
> Something like this would give you the list of the names of your
> volumes in the Read-Only state from all available pools (you might
> want to limit the list to a specific pool using pool=your-pool-name):
> echo "list volumes" | bconsole | grep Read-Only | awk '{print $4}'
>
> Then you can take that list of volume names and in a similar manner
> call bconsole tool with the delete command in a loop.
>
>
> Regards!
>
> --
> Josip Deanovic
>
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