Re: [Bacula-users] Bug / RFE

Hi,

04.02.2009 19:13, Dupree, Craig wrote:
> This is starting to get annoying....
> 
> Can the parts of bacula that ask for volume names not arbitrarily
> use atoi on them?

Not easily, no...

> Here is a good example where I want to purge a volume name, since I
> know now the list of volumes that I want to purge and reuse for
> this month's backup set:
> 
> Enter MediaId or Volume name: 000029 sql_get.c:1002 Media record
> MediaId=29 not found.
> 
> In this case, it's only a hassle because MediaId 29 doesn't exist.
> A worse problem occurs when the leading zeros are stripped off of a
> volume name, and the resulting number is a valid MediaId.

The problem is that the requests accepts both MediaId or a Volume 
name. MediaId is always numeric, a volume name is not.

As long as volume names can be numeric, and there is no way to 
distinguish if a MediaId or a volume name is entered, I see no simle 
solution to the problem.

Actually, as most volume names today are non-numeric, I don't think 
this affects enough users to make a fix an urgent thing.

You can, of course, post a proper feature request - preferrably along 
with a potential solution. A solution would have to be compatible to 
todays behaviour, though, as that interface is probably used by 
scripts; thus, requiring qoutes or any other special way to 
distinguish between media id and volume name when entered is probably 
not the best way.

I could imagine some post-input checks, i.e., after the value is 
entered, and it's numerical only, and has leading zeros, see if a 
volume with that MediaId exists. If there isn't one, use the input as 
a volume name.

I'm sure other solutions could be found...

Arno

> Craig
> 
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