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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