Hi, 18.05.2009 17:05, Frank Altpeter wrote: > Hi list... > > there once was an email about how to safely and completely remove a > client from a bacula server. Since there were no responses, and since > this was almost the only one I've found for this topic, I'm asking > here if someone has a good pointer for it. > > Well, the problem is, bacula is quite perfect in doing periodic > backups on many clients. But, as I've seen so far, there is no single > pointer on how to remove a client completely. I mean, just removing > the client definition in the bacula config files doesn't help. The > catalog database is full of references to this client, and the jobs, > the files, etc. are not removed by auto-pruning if the client is > deleted. So, I once tried to just disable a client for some weeks, > hoping that the autopruning would do the job of cleaning the database, > but it doesn't seem to be very helpful. > > Any pointer on how to really completely remove a client would be very > appreciated ...
Keep the client and related stuff in the configuration at first. Then, list all the jobs that client uses. After that, you use the 'delete job' command on that list (could be scripted rather easily, passing the output from bconsole's list through a pipe with awk and feeding the output to bconsole again). After that's done, you can remove the client from the configuration file and reload / restart. I don't have a complete recipe here, but the above should be reasonably easy. Alternatively, you could also manually remove the relevant stuff drom the catalog database, but I would be *very* careful with that approach - it's too easy to miss some important stuff. In any case, a run of dbcheck might clean your catalog of lots of orpahned files or directories, unless you have clients backed up that are very similar to the one just removed. Hope that helps, Arno -- Arno Lehmann IT-Service Lehmann Sandstr. 6, 49080 Osnabrück www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
