Chris Ernst wrote:
> Brien Dieterle wrote:
> > To try to answer it; yes I think you can add another host and just
> > rename the folder under "pc" to match the name, but I'm not positive
> > about that :-)
>
> For the record I am positive out that. I've done exactly this and
> it does work
I want to keep the full backup records of the machine available via
BackupPC for longer than the backup schedule would allow. This is so
that I can recover files if they were lost in the rebuild process. I
have made a tar archive of the last backup, but it is much easier to
restore from BackupPC
Brien Dieterle wrote:
> To try to answer it; yes I think you can add another host and just
> rename the folder under "pc" to match the name, but I'm not positive
> about that :-)
For the record I am positive out that. I've done exactly this and
it does work =)
- Chris
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To not answer your question; why don't you just let the new machine use
the existing configs, assuming you keep a few fulls you'll still have
access to the old files just the same. You could also archive it if you
really wanted to preserve it as-is. Basically, what I'm saying is OS
changes sh
I have a machine in my office which has been backed up with BackupPC.
The owner of the machine has rebuilt it with the same name, but a
different os. I want to keep the old backups while still continuing to
make backups of the new machine.
Can I change the name of the old backup sets so that they
