Re: [Bacula-users] How to run bconsole commands in a bash for loop?

[Phil S. <ph...@ca...>]

On 9/16/25 12:39, Gary Dale wrote:
> Internet searches have been futile. The ones that actually mention
> bconsole suggest what I've been trying to do should work, but it doesn't.
> 
> Through my initial setup struggles, my storage volumes have become a
> disjointed mess. To make matters worse, there are close to a hundred
> volumes showing "Error" when I "List Volumes". I have only about 20 that
> show up as physical disk volumes. And automatic volume creation seems to
> be failing. All my backups for the last 5 days have failed.

...


> Being able to put bconsole commands into a bash script seems like
> something that will be generally useful but I can't find a way to make
> it work.
> 
> Any ideas?


Willing to try a Perl script instead?

Try this one.  It does exactly what you're trying to do, including 
detecting errored volumes.

You'll need DBD::mysql or DBD::mariadb if you con't have them already 
installed and you're using a mysql/mariadb back end.  If you use 
PostgreSQL you'll have to make some changes.  Try it with -t first as a 
dry-run to make sure it's going to do what you want it to.


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