Re: [Bacula-devel] requesting a change in sort order in bconsole 'list volumes' command

[John D. <dre...@gm...>]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Bob Hetzel <be...@ca...> wrote:
> I'm wondering if this minor change could be put into Bacula so that results
> are sorted differently when you do a 'list volumes' inside bconsole.
>
> I believe anybody that uses barcoded tapes would much prefer to see this
> list sorted by VolumeName rather than MediaId whenever they need to look at
> the list for the purpose of doing media rotation.  I can't think of any
> negative consequences (however there may be some that I don't experience).
>  Ideally this would be more configurable, so a person could select which
> sort order they want I suppose.
>
> Any thoughts?
>

To get around this I just use the bconsole query command and add
queries to query.sql that sorts my volumes in the ways I want.

John