Thanks for that suggestion. Am I correct that I can only select multiple records from one page?
I had a large number of volumes to delete that spread over several pages so wrote the little script. I also use the Bacula Webmin module to delete the odd volume but it’s a one at a time operation. Best -Chris- > On 24 Feb 2022, at 04:09, Marcin Haba <ganius...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello Chris, > > If you use Baculum and you want to delete Purged volumes only from the > catalog you can go to Volumes page, then in 'Vol. status' filter select > 'Purged', after that select volumes that you want to delete. If you want to > delete all Purged volumes, please select all filtered jobs (for example by > clicking first volume and clicking the last one with SHIFT). At the end in > the actions drop down list you can select 'Delete' action and that's all. In > the modal window you should now see the delete action log from bconsole. > > Best regards, > Marcin Haba (gani) > > On Wed, 23 Feb 2022 at 17:41, Chris Wilkinson <winstonia...@gmail.com > <mailto:winstonia...@gmail.com>> wrote: > 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 >> <mailto: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 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bacula-users mailing list >> Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> <mailto:Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net> >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users >> <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users> > > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net <mailto:Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users> > > > -- > "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his > friends." Jesus Christ > > "Większej miłości nikt nie ma nad tę, jak gdy kto życie swoje kładzie za > przyjaciół swoich." Jezus Chrystus
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