On second thoughts, I will need another solution since dropping the database entirely would also wipe the records for a second NAS that stores backups for another set of jobs. I’d rather not lose that backup set if possible.
Best -Chris- > On 31 Jan 2021, at 14:52, Chris Wilkinson <winstonia...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Yes, that seems a good plan. There are such scripts in the /etc/bacula folder. > > Many thanks > Chris Wilkinson > > On Sun, 31 Jan 2021, 2:10 pm Timo Neuvonen, <timo-n...@tee-en.net > <mailto:timo-n...@tee-en.net>> wrote: > > I backup to a NAS drive which has failed this morning. > > I can replace the drive and rerun the jobs with the existing resource defs > > but wonder how I should I reset the catalog since all those volumes are > > now lost but are still in the database. > > > > One option is perhaps to delete all the volumes using Baculum. Would that > > work, is there a better way ? > > I think somewhere in the directory tree there's a script > "drop_bacula_tables", and probably also "create_bacula_tables". > > I haven't used them for more than a decade, but I think manual mentions them > (in addition to classic tarball install) in some beginners guide, so you > could drop all the traces of initial error-and-trial experiments before > switching to "production use". > > > Of course, you'd better to consider first if there might ever be any > conflict caused by the same job numbers etc. again. For example, if you have > an archieve of old bootstrap files, you'd better to get rid of those files > too at the same time so they won't confuse you in the future. > > -- > TiN > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net <mailto:Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users>
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