> Hello Jonas,
> There is a dbcheck utility with "-f" option that you can try to delete
> orphaned
> entries in your database.
> If you have "autoprune=yes" configured in your clients, then bacula has
> already
> been pruning your jobs and files according to your file and job retention
> periods for the clients. This is the safely way. But you also has the purge
> command that deletes files, jobs or volumes without regarding to the retention
> periods.
> If you removed the clients and jobs configurations from your .conf files and
> restarted bacula, then you will not have then for future backups, but files,
> volumes and jobs for these old clients will be in catalog. If you are sure
> about deleting them from catalog, you need the delete commnad (if you delete a
> volume, all the jobs and files associated to it are also deleted from catalog.
> If you do not delete the volume file from your filesystem, you will always be
> able to restore files using bextract utility).
Ana / Jonas: I think the problem here is he deleted volume information from
Bacula catalog and but they are still in the Archive Device - disk.
The must direct solution would be removing them from bash (rm). Just make sure
you are not using them anymore with an list media (bconsole).
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> Best regards,
> Ana
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 10:26 AM, Jonas Meier < jme...@futurelab.ch > wrote:
>> Hi All
>> We have Bacula 5.2.6 running on Debian Jessie. As a device back end we use a
>> simple ext4 file system (Media Type = File). A few months ago we removed much
>> servers. At this time I don't really know how Bacula works and just removed
>> the
>> jobs and client configurations from bacula-dir.conf and restarted the
>> daemons.
>> Now the servers runs out of space and I discovered, that my removal didn't
>> freed
>> any space on the filesystem. Same in the mysql database, when I run "select
>> distinct(name) from Job;", all old jobs are included. Now I search a way to
>> clean-up the stuff on the filesystem and the database. I recovered the old
>> bacula-dir configuration from git and tried to purge one of the old job over
>> bacula-console, but it stops with "No Files found for client NameOfServer to
>> purge from MyCatalog catalog."
>> Is there a tool or command to clean up something like that?
>> Thanks, Jonas
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