Kern Sibbald wrote:
> On Friday 11 September 2009 13:52:52 Phil Stracchino wrote:
>> Does anyone see a reason NOT TO extend the "purge jobs" and "delete
>> volumes" commands to be able to operate on MediaId as well as volume
>> name?  I was thinking about this morning and thinking that the ability
>> to say "Purge jobs MediaId=nnn-mmm" would be a significant speed-up for
>> volume management when using large numbers of disk volumes.
>>
>> Currently, my tape drive having failed and my disk array being down
>> several disks, I'm using an all-disk backup scheme in which volumes are
>> writeable for 23 hours, thus each night's backup creates a new volume.
>> I believe this would be a handy enhancement for managing similar setups.
> 
> It sounds like a good idea to me.  Are you thinking about implementing it?

I was, yes.  I think it'd be a good way to get my feet wet again now
that I'm back up to a current codebase.

> If so, I hope I can convince you to use git and will send a general email 
> later this afternoon that I hope will be positive encouragement for Bacula 
> developers to learn git.

I'm working on it.  I have the git "cheat sheet" tacked up on the wall
next to my desk.  :)


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