Clean the Database not existent Entries

#1

We run a server 2012R2 with Urbackup 2.4.12 and backup some servers on a NAS.
My former admin didn´t adjust the amount of backups fitting to the nas size (ive done this now and all runs properly without space problems keeping only a couple of days on the nas and afterwards on a transportable hdd in the archives)

So when the nas ran full he deleted only the files on the nas, and thats where my problem is. I have now entries at Backup>Clients that don´t have the connection to a file. When i select delete for this entry the system finds, of course, no file.

How could i get rid of these entries? Don´t know if the cleanup_database.bat will help me. Thanks for your support.

#2

You must run cleanup_database.bat to clean the database , it will be long, it will remove these entries.

Do not delete files manually , but instead set proper retention time for the backups using the server config
I guess this is what you did

Maybe you want to use two servers , one with recent backup and one server with old backups.
You can look at backup archiving to do this (well , both will hold a single recent backup).
You can also use internet backup to backup to a remote place

If you want to use a use disk , then you must copy all the files to it including the database , not only the old ones, maybe it s cleaner and faster to clone the partition. Well maybe for disk images you dont need everything if they are in vhd, you need to test.

#3

Thank you very much for your answer, I tried to run cleanup_database.base in cmd as admin but
all entries without a connection to a backupfile (while backupfile was deleted manually) remain.

I´ll also use Urbackup on my two servers at home with good retention times and no problems
of backup overflow but my colleague deleted files manually and now its a mess i would get rid of.

#4

It is remove_unknown.bat (see the admin manual for details).

#5

Thank you very much for your support, i´ve done it in a backup downtime.
All unused entries are away now and the system is clean.

Great. -closed-