>-----Original Message----- >From: Holger Parplies [mailto:wb...@parplies.de] >Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2013 9:29 AM >To: General list for user discussion, questions and support >Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Keep backup data when source host/directory >changes > >Hi, > >Mark Campbell wrote on 2013-03-06 07:48:44 -0700 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Keep >backup data when source host/directory changes]: >> I've not personally tried this, so someone else who has can comment on >> whether this would work or not, but it seems to me that if you were to >> rename your backups to the new servername, that they would show up for >> the new server accordingly. These would be the locations that you >> would need to change the server name in: >> -The Backup directory (e.g., /var/lib/BackupPC/pc/<server name>) >> -Inside the hosts file (/etc/BackupPC/hosts) -The server config file >> (/etc/BackupPC/pc/<server name>.pl) > >alternatively, you can use ClientNameAlias to point the *old* server >configuration to the new target host. That would mean, you would keep >the >server in BackupPC under the old name, but switch the backups to hit the new >server under the new name. I'm not saying this is better, >just that it's also >possible. > >> As for the differing locations, you haven't mentioned what method you >> use to back up this server. I use rsync (and I think most people do). >> In the case of rsync, even with the data being in a different place, >> you can still set up the rsync.conf file on the host to use the same >> rsync path, pointing to a different place. As an example, let's say >> that I had data in /home/user/data being backed up, and that the rsync >> path for this was rsync://<host>/data1. > >I think you are actually talking about rsyncd, right? > >Regards, >Holger >
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