>>>>> On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 15:06:13 +0100, Frank Altpeter said: > > On 2/19/07, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In response to "Frank Altpeter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > My current bacula system (FreeBSD, bacula-2.0.1, mysql-4.1) has > > > currently some massive performance problems. One of the reasons i > > > think is caused by the massive amount of old and obsolete records. > > > For example, i had a client to backup once, which has dissappeared > > > some time ago. When this machine has been removed, the client has been > > > deleted from the bacula configuration. But this way the database > > > records for these clients remain in the database, thus making the db > > > records more and more unusable. > > > So, i would like to prune such records to reduce unneeded data. > > > > > > Is there any way on archiving this? > > > > dbcheck should clean this stuff up. > > > > > And, for the future, what's the best practice to avoid this? > > > > Purge the volumes prior to removing the clients. > > > > On the flip side, running dbcheck periodically is pretty much a requirement > > for keeping Bacula's database reasonably sized. I have it run once a month > > in read-only mode via cron and email us the results. When the extra stuff > > gets significant, I use it to go in and clean up. > > dbcheck is being run on a weekly basis (every sunday before backup > starts) but didn't catch all the old entries from the database. > I just removed manually old entries from Job and File database > relating to jobs back in 2005 ... about 5 million file entries (from > about 25 currently)... > So, dbcheck doesn't seem to clean up that much :)
I think that is correct -- dbcheck just removes unreferenced entries, so if the job record is still there then it won't do anything to the file records. __Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
