running bconsole commands in bash script

Hi All,

We are using bacula 13.x.

As part of the periodic garbage collection activity, we do purging and truncating of the stranded disk volumes (volumes that have no jobs associated with them) to conserve the disk space.

We do it running a bash script that first identifies such stranded volumes (at times hundreds of them) and then it purges each volume through a "for loop" with a bconsole  command as given below:

                 for vol in `echo ${vol_list}`
                 do
                                  echo "purge volume=$vol yes" | bconsole
                 done

However for every single iteration of the purge command in the loop above, the script connects to the bacula-dir , which seems to be very slow,  hence inefficient.
Is there a  way to connect to the  bacula-dir only once and execute the purge command for number of volumes in one go?

-Yateen

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