Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] How to properly delete Clients and data from DB

2012-05-07 09:26:12
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] How to properly delete Clients and data from DB
From: Martin Reissner <mreissner AT wavecon DOT de>
To: John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Mon, 07 May 2012 15:24:11 +0200

On 05/07/2012 03:00 PM, John Drescher wrote:
> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Martin Reissner <mreissner AT wavecon DOT de> 
> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I had to remove several clients (fds) from my bacula setup and I found
>> no intructions on how to do this properly. Can someone please help me out?
>> What I want to achieve is that all database entries related to those
>> clients (clients, jobs, files,...) will be removed as this is quiet some
>> data.
>> My best guess was to delete those clients including
>> jobs,filesets,schedules and also their dedicated storage devices and
>> pools from the config files and then run dbcheck to remove orphaned
>> entries but this didn't work as dbcheck reported no orphaned
>> Clients/Jobs/.. but they are still in the DB when I check via SQL and
>> the Clients are also still listed when prompted to select a Client in
>> 'restore' mode.
>>
>> I'm using Bacula 5.0.2 with Mysql on Debian Squeeze 64.
>>
> 
> Did you also remove all traces of the clients from the bacula
> configuration files?
> 
> John

Hello John,

yes, all traces have been removed. I just did a grep -ir with some
clientnames on my config directory to make sure and got no matches.

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