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Re: [Bacula-users] Regarding: Deleted (Old) Volumes/Clients Still Showing in Bacula

2013-02-11 11:10:58
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Regarding: Deleted (Old) Volumes/Clients Still Showing in Bacula
From: Martin Simmons <martin AT lispworks DOT com>
To: Humphrey Bryant <hbryant AT fogadaley DOT com>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:08:17 GMT
>>>>> On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 09:51:55 -0500, Humphrey Bryant said:
> 
> No probs. but i found a "noob way" to get rid of the stale/old records.
> 
> I went to bconsole and run "list pools";
> after it gave me a list of Pools I then look on the *Pool Id *of the 
> stale/old Pools then login to the (MYSQL) bacula database an deleted the 
> respective pool id's from the *Pools table* inside the Bacula Database 
> and that got rid of the stale records.
> Thanks for your input nonetheless

The recommended way is using the delete pool command from bconsole.  That also
deletes the media records.

__Martin


> 
> Cheers
> 
> On 02/11/2013 04:40 AM, Geert Stappers wrote:
> > Op 20130207 om 18:55 schreef Humphrey Bryant:
> >> On 02/07/2013 03:03 AM, Geert Stappers wrote:
> >>> Op 20130130 om 17:38 schreef Humphrey Bryant:
> >>>> Hi All,
> >>>>
> >>>> I am running Bacula 5.2.12 on CentOS 6.2 storing my backups to Disk
> >>>> (fileStorage).
> >>>>
> >>>> I recently removed some bacula clients that no longer exists on my 
> >>>> network from
> >>>> my "bacual-dir.conf" file but whenever i go to Bconsole and try to do a 
> >>>> restore
> >>>> /backup i notice i still see the (Old) Clients that I have deleted in 
> >>>> there.
> >>>> None of these Old Clients have never run a backup before on bacula; they 
> >>>> were
> >>>> created as typos (incorrect names) when setting up bacula hence i want 
> >>>> to get
> >>>> rid of them to ease the confusion.
> >>>>
> >>>> Also I Removed/Purged some Volumes from bacula but when i go to Bconsole 
> >>>> and
> >>>> run "list volumes" i still see the old volumes there even though i 
> >>>> purged,
> >>>> volume delete and remove (rm -rf)  the file from the server. These 
> >>>> volumes
> >>>> still show up with no info attached to them.
> >>>>
> >>>> How can i remove these stale (Old) Client/Volume info from Bacula?
> >>> AFAIK it is something along
> >>>
> >>>     select ClientId, Name from Client order by ClientId ;
> >>>     delete from Client where Name = 'your_no_longer_existing_client' ;
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Yes, those are database actions.
> >>> They can be performed from `bconsole` with the command `sqlquery`.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Cheers
> >>> Geert Stappers
> >> Hey thanks for your reply, I went into the MYSQL database via phpmyadmin
> >> and I see the client list but they don't show actual names but judging
> >> by the info I see in them i can identify the non-existent clients.
> >> I was wondering if i could just delete them from the database this way
> >> (via phpmyadmin)?
> >>
> >> This is what i see for client name in the MYSQL Tables  [BLOB - 0 B]
> >> [BLOB - 12 B]
> >>
> >> I will read up on Bconsole 'sqlquery'  and see how best I can remedy
> >> this problem.
> >>
> >> Thanks again for your reply
> >>
> >> Regards
> >>
> > Please bring it back to the bacula community, e.g. the mailinglist.
> >
> 
> 

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