I want to keep the full backup records of the machine available via BackupPC for longer than the backup schedule would allow. This is so that I can recover files if they were lost in the rebuild process. I have made a tar archive of the last backup, but it is much easier to restore from BackupPC than from a tar archive.
If no one else chimes in here, I'll try renaming directories and see what happens. Bowie Brien Dieterle wrote: > To not answer your question; why don't you just let the new machine > use the existing configs, assuming you keep a few fulls you'll still > have access to the old files just the same. You could also archive > it if you really wanted to preserve it as-is. Basically, what I'm > saying is OS changes shouldn't really affect your backup scheme if > you keep plenty of fulls/revisions... > > To try to answer it; yes I think you can add another host and just > rename the folder under "pc" to match the name, but I'm not positive > about that :-) > > brien > > Bowie Bailey wrote: > > I have a machine in my office which has been backed up with > > BackupPC. > > The owner of the machine has rebuilt it with the same name, but a > > different os. I want to keep the old backups while still > > continuing to make backups of the new machine. > > > > Can I change the name of the old backup sets so that they can be > > maintained under a different name while the new backups come in > > under > > the original name? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Bowie ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
