David Wimsey wrote: > Let me start off with sorry if this has been answered and I didn't find > it in the archives, I'm betting someone else has already asked, but here > it is anyway. > > I had an instance of BackupPC running for nearly a year and had to stop > for various silly reasons. Since I stopped, all the end user machine > there were being backed up have changed names. There were something > like _<username> and are now just <username>. What I'm wondering is if > I can update the configs, and rename the various host directories and > have BackupPC continue to work with the machines without any big hassles? > > yes definitely. Rename the hosts in the hosts file, then rename the top level pc directories. Make sure permissions are still set properly.
Try doing this for one of your hosts, then reload or restart the backuppc configuration and you should see the change. its worked for me. > And, is upgrading to the 3.0 beta going to have any issues *known* with > the old backup directory tree? > > nope, i upgraded to 3.0 beta1 without issues regarding the backup data tree. My only issue was that i needed to find a version of "par2cmdline" to suit my system in order to have the new ability to edit the config file and hosts via the cgi interface. If you don't have an rpm for par2cmdline you can get the source of parchive from http://parchive.sourceforge.net My only other issue was in upgrading to 3.0beta1 on an older Redhat 3 box. I needed to cpan install "Encode" to get the upgrade going, But because redhat 3 is only perl 5.8.0 i had to "force install" Encode as it was complaining that it needed 5.8.1 of perl. In the end that box is working fine. Regards, Les ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
