On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 09:55:17AM +0000, Mister IT Guru wrote:
> 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?

Sorry, I don't know what bacula will do if the actual volume already exists.

But, yes, if I wanted to start fresh but keep the same configuration, I would
wipe the database as already described, and delete the actual volumes manually.


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