Paul writes:
> i'm pretty confident i'm okay on this, but just to be sure:
>
> i have a host that i've reinstalled with a new OS. i want to
> keep its former backups around for quite a while, in case i need
> something. the hostname remains the same ("stump"). in the
> backuppc configs, i've done this:
>
> mv pc/stump pc/oldstump
> mkdir pc/stump
> cp pc/oldstump/config.pl pc/stump
> chown -R backuppc:backuppc pc/stump
>
> and then i edited conf/hosts to add a line for "oldstump".
>
> is this sufficient?
Yes, that should work.
> there are other places where a machine's hostname is stored which
> might cause the two trees' contents to be confused somehow later on?
There's one other place, but it doesn't matter. BackupPC maintains
status per host, so the new "stump" will still have the old machine's
last backup status. Since it's just used for display in the host
summary and host detail it doesn't matter. Within a day or so the
new host will have the correct status. If you really want to fix this
you will need to stop BackupPC, edit log/status.pl, and then restart it.
But it's not worth the trouble.
Craig
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