Re: [BackupPC-users] Renaming host...

2020-02-27 Thread Raman Gupta
I believe you can just rename the host in the config file, and rename the host directory under `pc` in the backuppc data directory. After you rename the hosts to whatever makes sense, use ClientNameAlias to ensure the renamed host points to the *real* hostname. See http://backuppc.sourceforge.net

[BackupPC-users] Renaming host...

2020-02-27 Thread Omidia Backuppc
Hi all. How do you rename hosts in backuppc? So there are a couple windows machines being backup up by backuppc (3.3.1) that are foolishly named after the user, which is great until they leave, then the host in backuppc is the old name, referring to the previous user... which is fine until you go