Thank you Chris and Martin!
What I then did was use the Baculum Volumes view, filter for all volumes that
are not purged and set them to Purged. It is easier in Baculum than I initially
thought.
Then I used a job to run: truncate volume allpools storage=mystorage
That was easy enough for me, but it is great to have Chris’es scripts now!
All the best
JC
> On 21. Mar 2022, at 16:48, Chris Wilkinson <winstonia...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I wrote a couple of scripts to help with this problem. Start by deleting all
> the jobs that you don’t want anymore. This should mark all the associated
> volumes as ‘purged’. That can be done in bconsole or Baculum.
>
> This one deletes any ‘purged’ volume records from the catalog.
>
> #!/bin/bash
> #Usage: sudo ./delete-purged-volumes.sh any-char
> #Delete purged Bacula volumes. Do not delete if arg is empty
> if [[ -z $1 ]]; then
> echo "Not deleting"
> fi
> for vol in $(echo "list volume" | bconsole | grep Purged | awk '{print $4}')
> do
> if [[ ! -z $1 ]]; then
> echo "delete yes volume=$vol" | bconsole > /dev/null
> echo "Volume $vol deleted"
> else
> echo "Volume $vol not deleted"
> fi
> done
>
> This one deletes any volumes from the filesystem that are not now in the
> catalog. These are files in the filesystem that have no entry in the catalog.
>
> #!/bin/bash
> #Usage: sudo -u bacula ./delete-orphened-volumes.sh target-dir any-char
> #Delete orphaned Bacula volumes. Do not delete if second arg is empty
> if [[ -z $1 ]]; then
> echo "Please supply target directory"
> exit
> fi
> if [[ ! -d $1 ]]; then
> echo "Target does not exist"
> exit
> fi
> if [[ -z $2 ]]; then
> echo "Not deleting"
> fi
> cd $1 # change to target directory
> for vol in $(find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -printf '%f\n')
> do
> echo "list volume=$vol" | bconsole | if grep --quiet "No results to list";
> then
> if [[ ! -z $2 ]]; then
> rm $1$vol
> echo "Orphaned file $1$vol deleted"
> else
> echo "Orphaned file $1$vol not deleted"
> fi
> fi
> done
>
> Best
> -Chris-
>
>
>
>
>> On 21 Mar 2022, at 12:42, Martin Simmons <mar...@lispworks.com
>> <mailto:mar...@lispworks.com>> wrote:
>>
>> You can use the "delete volume" command in bconsole to remove a volume from
>> the catalog. After that, you can safely rm it from the filesystem.
>>
>> __Martin
>>
>>
>>>>>>> On Sat, 19 Mar 2022 13:08:41 +0100, Justin Case said:
>>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> again another newbie question:
>>>
>>> I need to use a different disk drive for Bacula and I would like to start
>>> over in the sense of deleting all volume files in a clean way, i.e. not
>>> corrupting the catalog. The goal is to free up the space occupied by all
>>> Bacula volumes.
>>>
>>> I know that I could migrate all volumes, but that takes more time than
>>> starting over. Losing all backups of the past few days after setting up
>>> Bacula is OK for me.
>>>
>>> I checked the manual what else I could do and it seems that one way would
>>> be to set each volume manually to purged, but that would not delete the
>>> volume but it would just be recycled/re-used. That would basically not help
>>> me to free the space on the disk currently used by Bacula. Also it would be
>>> a manual effort as I already have >150 volumes.
>>>
>>> All the best,
>>> JC
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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