On Thursday 2017-03-16 15:31:37 Kern Sibbald wrote: > Hello, > > I recently took a look at my catalog a bit more in detail when an > upgrade of my backup server from 14.04 to 16.04 failed (I have 6 > systems where the upgrade totally failed and left me with a broken > system), and so I reloaded the Bacula catalog from scratch and in doing > so I realized that there were lots and lots of old records in it from > jobs that I had run several years ago. This happens when you create a > job or a client, then stop using that job or client (or even remove the > client) so that no more jobs for that client run. What is important is > that Bacula prunes only when a job runs unless you do it manually, and > if jobs never run, the retention periods never apply and you end up > with lots and lots of unused (orphaned) records in the catalog. The > only way to clean it up is to see what jobs exist in the database and > prune/purge those which are no longer used -- this is done manual with > bconsole.
I believe that dbcheck can be used to clean the orphaned records. -- Josip Deanovic ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
