Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Question about recycle = no

2010-01-15 08:58:05
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Question about recycle = no
From: John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
To: Jon Schewe <jpschewe AT mtu DOT net>
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:48:35 -0500
>> I asked this same question recently.  There isn't a standard one.  I
>> will be writing one shortly for my own needs.
>>
>>
> Turns out it was really easy, I wrote one last night. It's below. You
> just want to change the find part of the script to find the appropriate
> volumes, then run this as a before or after job script. You will want to
> check this by working with a test pool, as I did, just to be sure it's
> right.
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> for file in `find /mnt/mybook/bacula -name 'Test-*'`; do
>  volume=`basename ${file}`
>  echo "*** Deleting Vol ${volume} from bacula catalog"
>  /usr/sbin/bconsole <<EOF
> delete volume="${volume}" yes
> quit
> EOF
>  echo "*** Deleteing ${file} from disk"
>  rm -f ${file}
> done
>

I think others were looking for the more complicated task of deleting
file volumes automatically after their retention period had expired.

John

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