Linux: Complete Removal

The following article aims at explaining how to remove Bacula Enterprise from your Linux system.

Following this guide all Bacula components will be uninstalled, including the Catalog database and backup volumes.

Stopping Bacula Services

Before uninstalling Bacula Enterprise packages stop all Bacula Daemons first.

systemctl stop bacula-dir
systemctl stop bacula-sd
systemctl stop bacula-fd

Remove Catalog Database

The Catalog (Bacula database) service is responsible for maintaining the bacula database for all the backed up files. Without the Catalog, you are unable to restore files using a restore job. By default, the Catalog is installed on the Bacula Director, but it can also be hosted on a dedicated SQL Server.

Bacula Enterprise provides a script to drop the Catalog from the SQL Server.

If you are using PostgreSQL, change to a postgres user before running the script.

su - postgres

Execute the script to drop the Catalog.

/opt/bacula/scripts/drop_bacula_database

Remove Disk-Based Volumes

Volume is an archive unit where Bacula stores backed up data. Once volumes are removed, all backed up data will be lost. Disk-based Bacula volumes are located in a location pointed to by Storage Daemon Devices through the “Archive Device” directive.

You can quickly find all the locations Bacula volumes are stored in a bsys_report of your Storage Daemon(s).

zgrep -i "archive*device" /opt/bacula/working/bsys_report.*.gz | sort -u

Important

Do make sure there is no data you may need inside the ArchiveDevice directories before removing it.

Remove all the content of directories ArchiveDevice points to.

rm -rf @@archive-device@@

@@archive-device@@ refers to the directories Storage Daemon Devices point to as found by the command above.

Remove Bacula Packages

You will uninstall Bacula Enterprise packages using your OS package manager. We provide instructions for deb and rpm based Operating Systems.

Remove Bacula Installation Directories

Important

Do make sure there is no data you may need inside the /opt/bacula and /opt/bweb directories before removing it.

Remove all the content of Bacula Enterprise and Bweb directories.

rm -rf /opt/bacula
rm -rf /opt/bweb