If you want to fully rename a host, you must (assuming Ubuntu standard
install):
1. Edit the /etc/backuppc/hosts
2. Rename any /etc/backuppc/hostname.pl and .pl.old files
3. Rename the directory in /var/lib/backuppc/pc/
Attached is my bash script to do this with some error checking.
Regards,
Tyler
On 2011-11-24 11:47, Sorin Srbu wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The recent ClientNameAlias-hint I got on this list, got me thinking a bit.
>
> Suppose I want to change the already set hostname from the anonymous
> "machine001.domain.local" to "adminstation", can I do that somehow, without
> botching the old backed up files for "machine001.domain.local"?
>
> Any gotchas'?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
>
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"The map is not the territory."
-- Alfred Korzybski
#!/bin/bash
# 2010-12-06 tyler
AUTHOR="[email protected]"
NAME=$(basename $0)
VERSION="1.1.2"
DESC="Rename a BackupPC host."
# defaults
BACKUPPC_CONF_DIR="/etc/backuppc"
BACKUPPC_CONF_FILE="$BACKUPPC_CONF_DIR/config.pl"
BACKUPPC_HOSTS_FILE="$BACKUPPC_CONF_DIR/hosts"
die() {
OUTPUT=$@
[ -n "$OUTPUT" ] && printf "$OUTPUT\n" >&2
exit 1
}
VersionAndExit() {
printf "$NAME version $VERSION, by $AUTHOR\n"
exit 0
}
UsageAndExit() {
if [ -n "$2" ] ; then printf "$2\n\n" ; fi
printf "\
Usage: $NAME [options] OLDNAME NEWNAME\n\
$DESC\n\
Options:\n\
-n dry run (don't act)\n\
-v verbose\n\
-h display help\n\
-V display version\n\
"
exit $1
}
while getopts ":hVnv" options; do
case $options in
h ) UsageAndExit 0;;
V ) VersionAndExit 0;;
n ) echo "Dry run, no changes will be made." ; DRYRUN="-n";;
v ) VERBOSE="-v";;
* ) UsageAndExit 1 "Option unknown: -$OPTARG";;
esac
done
if [ -f "$BACKUPPC_CONF_FILE" ] ; then
BACKUPPC_TOPDIR=$(grep '$Conf{TopDir}' "$BACKUPPC_CONF_FILE" | sed "s/^.*=
'//;s/';$//")
else
die "$BACKUPPC_CONF_FILE not found"
fi
# Clear $@ of switches
shift $(($OPTIND - 1))
if [ -z "$1" -o -z "$2" ] ; then
UsageAndExit 1
fi
# sanity checks
if [ \! -f "$BACKUPPC_HOSTS_FILE" -o \! -w "$BACKUPPC_HOSTS_FILE" -o \! -r
"$BACKUPPC_HOSTS_FILE" ] ; then
die "Cannot read or write to $BACKUPPC_HOSTS_FILE, or it is not a file.
Aborting."
fi
if [ \! -d "$BACKUPPC_TOPDIR" -o \! -w "$BACKUPPC_TOPDIR" -o \! -r
"$BACKUPPC_TOPDIR" ] ; then
die "Cannot read or write to $BACKUPPC_TOPDIR, or it is not a directory.
Aborting."
fi
grep -q "^$1[ ]" "$BACKUPPC_HOSTS_FILE" || die "$1 not found in
$BACKUPPC_HOSTS_FILE. Aborting."
grep -q "^$2[ ]" "$BACKUPPC_HOSTS_FILE" && die "$2 already exists in
$BACKUPPC_HOSTS_FILE. Aborting."
cd "$BACKUPPC_CONF_DIR" || die "Cannot change to $BACKUPPC_CONF_DIR"
# hosts - doesn't sort file
[ -n "$VERBOSE" ] && echo "Replacing $1 with $2 in $BACKUPPC_HOSTS_FILE"
if [ -z "$DRYRUN" ] ; then
cp -af "$BACKUPPC_HOSTS_FILE" "$BACKUPPC_HOSTS_FILE.old"
sed -i "s/^$1[ ]/$2 /" "$BACKUPPC_HOSTS_FILE" || die "sed
replacement failed on $BACKUPPC_HOSTS_FILE"
fi
# per-host configs
[ -n "$VERBOSE" ] && echo "Renaming any per-host configuration files in
$BACKUPPC_CONF_DIR"
if [ -f "$1.pl" ] ; then
rename $VERBOSE $DRYRUN "s/$1/$2/" "$1.pl" || die "Can't rename
$BACKUPPC_CONF_DIR/$1.pl"
fi
if [ -f "$1.pl.old" ] ; then
rename $VERBOSE $DRYRUN "s/$1/$2/" "$1.pl.old" || die "Can't rename
$BACKUPPC_CONF_DIR/$1.pl.old"
fi
# backup directory
[ -n "$VERBOSE" ] && echo "Renaming directory in $BACKUPPC_TOPDIR/pc"
if [ -z "$DRYRUN" ] ; then
mv $VERBOSE "$BACKUPPC_TOPDIR/pc/$1" "$BACKUPPC_TOPDIR/pc/$2" || die "Can't
move $BACKUPPC_TOPDIR/pc/$i to $2"
fi
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contains a definitive record of customers, application performance,
security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this
data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense.
http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d
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