On 07/06/10 10:58, Charlie Reddington wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I backup to to file storage. I also create a new volume for every  
> backup job. So for a client I may have Full-0001,  Diff-0001, and  
> Incr-0001, Incr-0002, Incr-0003.
> 
> Recently we found that our volume retention was WAY to long, and I  
> wanted to purge some volumes and get some free space on the filesystem  
> again. I found it difficult to find which volumes went to where , and  
> I figured I am just missing something.
> 
> I basically went back through my email logs, looked for the jobs for a  
> client and what volume they wrote. Purged them and then removed them  
> from the disk. There has to be a easier way, and I assume a better way  
> inside of bconsole.
> 
> I had thought this may be a good one to use the sql query ability of  
> bconsole, but I am not 100% certain.

There exists a console function to list the jobs contained on a volume,
grasshopper.  It is readily accessible from the Pools listing in BAT, if
you don't want to do it from bconsole.


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