On 1/15/10 7:48 AM, John Drescher wrote:
>>> 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.
>
>   
That's what I intend to do as well by changing the find to be this:

find /mnt/mybook/bacula -mtime +65

This finds all files that haven't been modified in 65 days or more. If
the retention period is set to 60 days, this would be a pretty safe way
to do it.

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