Les Stott writes:
> 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.
Yes, renaming things in this way is the best approach.
An alternative is to keep everything the way it is and use
$Conf{ClientNameAlias} in each per-PC config file to point
at the new host names. But then you forever have the legacy
names in BackupPC.
Craig
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