Re: [Bacula-users] How to correctly delete a client

[Bruno F. <br...@io...>]

Tom Sommer wrote:
> I've recently deleted some clients from my directory configuration.
> 
> However when I look in the Client table in MySQL, the clients are still
> there.
> I suspect the jobs and files won't be purged correctly since I removed
> the clients from the configuration, and so Bacula won't autopurge these
> records, and I don't want stale data or clients on my volumes.
> 
> So what is the correct procedure to wipe client records from Bacula?
> 
> Thanks
> --
> Tom Sommer
> 
After having made a reload of configuration ( just to be sure your client are away )
You can play with the dbcheck utility, which can clean orphaned records.

Read the wiki, manual, and mail list ( as dbcheck can run hours, days ) for good advise.


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     Bruno Friedmann