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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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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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contains a definitive record of customers, application performance,
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http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d



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-----Original Message-----
From: Tyler J. Wagner [mailto:tyler < at > tolaris.com]
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.

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