Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 02:32:24PM -0400, Dan Langille wrote:
>>> So.. bacula recycles the volume, but the name of the volume stays the same 
>>> as it was given
>>> when it was used for the first time.. 
>>>
>>> Any tips for this? 
>> In short, give up on getting labels redone when recycling.
>>
>> To do that is not recycling.
>>
>> If you are absolutely dead keen on relabeling, delete the volumes 
>> yourself, via script or otherwise.  ignoring recycling.  i.e. Do not 
>> Recycle.
>>
>> If it was me, I'd allow recycling and ignore the labels.  Labels are 
>> just labels and in my humble opinion, and your milage may vary, having 
>> the date in the volume name is not useful to me.  I can see the last 
>> written date for a given volume by inspecting the output of 'list media'.
>>
> 
> Ok.. I can see your point.
> 
> I know I can and will see all the information from the database and/or
> bconsole, but I was thinking if it's possible it would be nice to be able to
> see all the info from the shell also.. using just ls/du etc.

You can get it via the shell:

   echo 'list media' | bconsole | grep MYVOLUMELABEL

Simliar things can be done using psql:

   echo 'select whatever from tables where....' | psql bacula

> If I set recycle to no, then I'd have to make a custom script to handle the
> file/volume purging manually..

Not so much purging as a simple delete from the Catalog and then from disk.

-- 
Dan Langille

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