Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] How would I 'nuke' my bacula instance - Start afresh so to speak.

2011-01-05 04:56:56
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] How would I 'nuke' my bacula instance - Start afresh so to speak.
From: Mister IT Guru <misteritguru AT gmx DOT com>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 09:55:17 +0000
On 05/01/2011 09:51, Graham Keeling wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 09:38:14AM +0000, Mister IT Guru wrote:
>> I've run lots of test jobs, and I have a lot of backup data, that I
>> don't really need, around 2TB or so! (we have a few servers!) I would
>> like to know if it's possible to remove all of those jobs out of the
>> bacula database. Personally, I would have cut this configure out, and
>> drop it on a previous backup I have, but then I don't learn about how
>> bacula works.
>>
>> My main fear, is that I rsync my disk backend offsite, and I've
>> currently suspended that because of all these test jobs that I'm
>> running. Also, I've reset the bacula-dir and sd, during backups, and
>> I've a feeling that some of them are not viable.
>>
>> I guess what I'm asking is, is it possible to wipe the slate clean, but
>> keep my working configuration from within bacula?
> It sounds like you just want to wipe your sql database and keep your bacula
> configuration files.
>
> When I want to do this, I stop bacula and stop mysql (I use mysql):
>
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/bacula stop
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysql stop
>
> I then 'rm -r' the bacula mysql database files - something like this:
>
> cd /var/lib/mysql/data
> rm -r bacula
>
> I then start mysql and start bacula:
>
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysql start
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/bacula start
>
This would mean I would manually deleted my disk based backups? 
Otherwise if I don't then wouldn't the first attempt to run a backup 
fail, because that disk volume exists? DiskBackupPool-001 as a file 
already exists, so will bacula just overwrite it?

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