>-----Original Message-----
>From: Holger Parplies [mailto:wbppc AT parplies DOT de]
>Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2013 9:29 AM
>To: General list for user discussion, questions and support
>Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Keep backup data when source host/directory
>changes
>
>Hi,
>
>Mark Campbell wrote on 2013-03-06 07:48:44 -0700 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Keep
>backup data when source host/directory changes]:
>> 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)
>
>alternatively, you can use ClientNameAlias to point the *old* server
>configuration to the new target host. That would mean, you would keep >the
>server in BackupPC under the old name, but switch the backups to hit the new
>server under the new name. I'm not saying this is better, >just that it's also
>possible.
>
>> 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.
>
>I think you are actually talking about rsyncd, right?
>
>Regards,
>Holger
>
I am--my clients linux & windows alike use rsync as a daemon. I'm not aware of
any other way to do rsync for Windows.
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