Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Suggestion: order by VolumeName instead of MediaId

2010-09-10 05:36:27
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Suggestion: order by VolumeName instead of MediaId
From: Martin Simmons <martin AT lispworks DOT com>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:34:04 +0100
>>>>> On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:17:49 -0400, Bob Hetzel said:
> 
> I have a suggestion that I figure others might also want but I figured it 
> would be good to mention it here to see if anybody can think of a reason 
> not to change the sort order from the list volumes command.
> 
> Currently when we do a 'list volumes' in bconsole, the records come back 
> ordered by MediaId.  For those of us running bacula with barcodes, the 
> MediaId field is almost never used.  Could the sort order be changed so 
> that it sorts by VolumeName instead?
> 
> I suspect there must have been some reason to sort by MediaId but I can't 
> think of it (however that certainly isn't meant to imply that it doesn't 
> exist).

I'm not sure if it is an advantage or disadvantage, but the current ordering
effectively sorts them by the date they were added to the catalog.

__Martin

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