delete Volumes

[Stephan Hermann-Strauß]

Hi there,

 

we just reorganized our volumes/devices/storages/pools design. As a result there are volumes we do not need anymore. What is the safe way to get rid of these volumes and all the backups within?

 

Thanks and greets

Stephan

 

 

[Brock Palen]

If they are tape volumes you want to recycle, you can just use the purge command.

If they are disk volumes you want to go away bareos won’t delete them,

So I would do

purge volume=<volumename>
delete volume=<volumename>
rm -f /mnt/baroes/<volumename> # update for location of volumes

The purge/delete is important so that baroes don’t think files exist for backup jobs.

If you have a list of volumes in a file you can do:

for x in $(cat /tmp/volumes)
do
echo “purge volume=$x” | bconsole
echo “delete volume=$x” | bconsole
rm -f /mnt/baroes/$x
done


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[Stephan Hermann-Strauß]

Hey Brock,

thanks so much - that was very helpful!
I would like to note that the "mass deleting script" needed some little changes to work for me. Here is what worked:

for x in $(cat /your/path/listofvolumefiles.txt)

do
echo purge volume=$x | bconsole

echo delete volume=$x yes | bconsole
rm -f /your/path/$x
done

Many greets
Stephan
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Betreff: Re: [bareos-users] delete Volumes