On Wed 09 September 2009 04:00:06 pm John Drescher wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 2:30 PM, C M Reinehr <cmr AT amsent DOT com> wrote:
> > On Wed 09 September 2009 01:24:55 pm John Drescher wrote:
> >> > After manually deleting the bacula mysql db, if I perform a
> >> > "status storage=<name>" in bconsole, I see old terminated jobs.
> >> >
> >> > Where is this coming from?
> >>
> >> This info is not in the database. I believe there is a text file that
> >> has this in /var/lib/bacula or /var/tmp/bacula however on my director
> >> I did not find it so I am not sure.
> >>
> >> John
> >
> > Would that be the bacula*.state files in /var/lib/bacula. I've not read
> > it anywhere but it appears that these are written when the various
> > daemons are shut down.
>
> Yes, it looks like the state files contain this information.
>
> http://www.bacula.org/manuals/en/concepts/concepts/New_Features.html
>
> John

I seem to recall someone saying you just could delete these files & restart 
the daemons if they contain stale information. I know I've deleted them a 
time or two without causing any problems.

cmr



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