Re: running bconsole commands in bash script

Thanks Josh !!

From: Josh Fisher <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2025 7:54 PM
To: Yateen Shaligram Bhagat (Nokia) <[email protected]>; bacula-users <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] running bconsole commands in bash script


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On 6/20/25 08:11, Yateen Shaligram Bhagat (Nokia) via Bacula-users wrote:
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


A new connection will be made every time bconsole is invoked. Instead, invoke bconsole only once with something like:

#!/bin/sh

tmp=''

plist="full inc"

for pool in $plist

do

    tmp=$tmp"list media pool=$pool"$'\n'

done

echo "$tmp" | bconsole




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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