-----Original Message-----
From: Tyler J. Wagner [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: den 24 november 2011 13:23
To: General list for user discussion, questions and support
Cc: Sorin Srbu
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] ClientNameAlias

On 2011-11-24 11:47, Sorin Srbu wrote:
>> 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"?
>>
>
>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.

Cool, thanks!

This is CentOS 5.7, but I guess the differences are not too difficult to work 
out.

-- 
/Sorin

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