Your suggestion was perfect.
This little bash script has the desired effect. It can be altered to
find/delete other types of unwanted records such as Error or Read-Only or
restricted to a particular pool as you suggested. It doesn’t delete anything on
disk, only from the catalog.
#!/bin/bash
#Usage: sudo ./delete-purged-volumes.sh any-char
#Delete purged Bacula volumes. Do not delete if arg is empty
if [[ -z $1 ]]; then
echo "Not deleting"
fi
for vol in $(echo "list volume" | bconsole | grep Purged | awk '{print $4}')
do
if [[ ! -z $1 ]]; then
echo "delete yes volume=$vol" | bconsole > /dev/null
echo "Volume $vol deleted"
else
echo "Volume $vol not deleted"
fi
done
Best
-Chris-
> On 21 Feb 2022, at 11:22, 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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