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)
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. You could continue to use that path in rsync should you decide to move the data to /var/data1 by repointing it to the new directory. BackupPC would know no differently. This example was a linux host. You also didn't mention what type of host it was, but in the case of rsync, this would work for a windows host as well. Thanks, --Mark -----Original Message----- From: Maarten [mailto:m...@milieudefensie.nl] Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2013 8:49 AM To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [BackupPC-users] Keep backup data when source host/directory changes Hi, I have a problem for which I'm not sure a proper solution exists, but let me try anyway. In my current setup, I have a BackupPC server with about 4.0TB of storage of which 2.7TB is in use. One host is responsible for most of the backup data (~ 1.5TB), and yesterday I migrated this host to a different server. Added to that, I moved the data to a different/more sane place on the filesystem. So now I have the situation that BackupPC has up to a year of backups of the old host, but there is not enough room to start backing up the new host/directories. And even if I did, it would be silly to backup the same data twice. So my question is: can anybody think of an elegant way to re-use the currently backed up data so that I can keep the current backups and not start from scratch? The not-so-elegant solution that comes to mind is to rename the old host on the BackupPC server and create symlinks so that the old directories still exist on the new server. Thanks, Maarten ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 positioned as A LEADER in The Forrester Wave(TM): Endpoint Security, Q1 2013 and "remains a good choice" in the endpoint security space. For insight on selecting the right partner to tackle endpoint security challenges, access the full report. http://p.sf.net/sfu/symantec-dev2dev _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 positioned as A LEADER in The Forrester Wave(TM): Endpoint Security, Q1 2013 and "remains a good choice" in the endpoint security space. For insight on selecting the right partner to tackle endpoint security challenges, access the full report. http://p.sf.net/sfu/symantec-dev2dev _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/