Hello Jonas,

There is a dbcheck utility with "-f" option that you can try to delete orphaned entries in your database.

If you have "autoprune=yes" configured in your clients, then bacula has already been pruning your jobs and files according to your file and job retention periods for the clients. This is the safely way. But you also has the purge command that deletes files, jobs or volumes without regarding to the retention periods.

If you removed the clients and jobs configurations from your .conf files and restarted bacula, then you will not have then for future backups, but files, volumes and jobs for these old clients will be in catalog. If you are sure about deleting them from catalog, you need the delete commnad (if you delete a volume, all the jobs and files associated to it are also deleted from catalog. If you do not delete the volume file from your filesystem, you will always be able to restore files using bextract utility).

Best regards,

Ana

On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 10:26 AM, Jonas Meier <jmeier AT futurelab DOT ch> wrote:

Hi All

We have Bacula 5.2.6 running on Debian Jessie. As a device back end we use a simple ext4 file system (Media Type = File). A few months ago we removed much servers. At this time I don't really know how Bacula works and just removed the jobs and client configurations from bacula-dir.conf and restarted the daemons.

Now the servers runs out of space and I discovered, that my removal didn't freed any space on the filesystem. Same in the mysql database, when I run "select distinct(name) from Job;", all old jobs are included. Now I search a way to clean-up the stuff on the filesystem and the database. I recovered the old bacula-dir configuration from git and tried to purge one of the old job over bacula-console, but it stops with "No Files found for client NameOfServer to purge from MyCatalog catalog."

Is there a tool or command to clean up something like that?

Thanks, Jonas

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