Re: [Bacula-users] Howto remove clients permanently and completely from backup ?

[Josh F. <jf...@pv...>]

On 3/31/2015 10:39 AM, Alan Brown wrote:
> On 31/03/15 14:48, Robert Heinzmann wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> how can I remove clients and the jobs / volumes etc. from Bacula, once
>> the client is gone ?
>>
>> If I remove the client from the config file, it will not be removed from
>> catalog.
> See the purge command
>
>>   Also if no job is running anymore, files and jobs are not
>> purged anymore.
> Depending how long you want to keep things around, they will eventually
> be purged when the tapes age out.
>
> In practice you'll  probably want to keep the client's records around
> for at least one backup cycle in case someone wants an item off it (this
> has happened here)

I'll second that. Over the years, I have had to restore many files from 
clients that were already "gone".