Re: [Bacula-users] Automatically Disposing of Volumes

2009-02-19 Thread Chris Lieb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Lieb wrote: > I am setting up Bacula right now for the first time and have pretty much > everything working, but have one nagging concern. Since Bacula was > designed around tape backup systems, it supports recycling of volumes so > that they ca

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatically Disposing of Volumes

2009-02-16 Thread Thiago Simoes
John Drescher wrote: >> Ok, I've got everything scripted up except the deletion. What all needs >> to be done to delete a volume? Right now I am looking at doing a: >> >> $ bconsole <> >>> delete media volume=volume_name >>> quit >>> EOF >>> >> $ rm -f /backup/volume_name >> >> Is tha

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatically Disposing of Volumes

2009-02-13 Thread John Drescher
> Ok, I've got everything scripted up except the deletion. What all needs > to be done to delete a volume? Right now I am looking at doing a: > > $ bconsole <> delete media volume=volume_name >> quit >> EOF > $ rm -f /backup/volume_name > > Is that all that needs to be done to delete a volume? >

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatically Disposing of Volumes

2009-02-13 Thread Chris Lieb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Drescher wrote: >> If you really want to do this you will have to roll your own solution. >> Most likely this will involve a cron job scripting commands to >> bconsole. >> > > I know I was a little unclear here. The rm of the volume file happens

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatically Disposing of Volumes

2009-02-13 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Chris Lieb wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > John Drescher wrote: >>> If you really want to do this you will have to roll your own solution. >>> Most likely this will involve a cron job scripting commands to >>> bconsole. >>> >> >> I know

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatically Disposing of Volumes

2009-02-13 Thread Thiago Simoes
John Drescher wrote: >> I'm looking for the same solution. I'm working on a script to do that >> since bacula cannot do by itself as John stated above. >> I think that what we need to do is delete the volumes from the catalog >> and after that delete the volume from the harddisk. >> >> > sound

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatically Disposing of Volumes

2009-02-13 Thread Chris Lieb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Drescher wrote: >> If you really want to do this you will have to roll your own solution. >> Most likely this will involve a cron job scripting commands to >> bconsole. >> > > I know I was a little unclear here. The rm of the volume file happens

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatically Disposing of Volumes

2009-02-13 Thread John Drescher
> I'm looking for the same solution. I'm working on a script to do that > since bacula cannot do by itself as John stated above. > I think that what we need to do is delete the volumes from the catalog > and after that delete the volume from the harddisk. > sounds correct to me > No idea how to ge

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatically Disposing of Volumes

2009-02-13 Thread Thiago Simoes
John Drescher wrote: > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Chris Lieb > wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> I am setting up Bacula right now for the first time and have pretty much >> everything working, but have one nagging concern. Since Bacula was >> designed ar

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatically Disposing of Volumes

2009-02-13 Thread John Drescher
> If you really want to do this you will have to roll your own solution. > Most likely this will involve a cron job scripting commands to > bconsole. > I know I was a little unclear here. The rm of the volume file happens outside of bacula. The script would use bconsole to figure out what volume t

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatically Disposing of Volumes

2009-02-13 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Chris Lieb wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I am setting up Bacula right now for the first time and have pretty much > everything working, but have one nagging concern. Since Bacula was > designed around tape backup systems, it support

[Bacula-users] Automatically Disposing of Volumes

2009-02-13 Thread Chris Lieb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am setting up Bacula right now for the first time and have pretty much everything working, but have one nagging concern. Since Bacula was designed around tape backup systems, it supports recycling of volumes so that they can be used again after a ce