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, <[email protected]> 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
>
>
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