[Bacula-users] Q: Rename a client in the DB

Hi!

Maybe this is no new question, but I didn't find anything about it 
in the archives.

Q: Is it possible to rename a client in the Bacula-DB?  

The case is:  here, client names correspond to host names.  Now, a host 
name has to be changed, so it's client name would also change.  Then it 
would be a new client for Bacula, and Bacula would upgrade the next 
incremental backup to a full backup, what is completely needless
(and bad because of 4 TB data stored there). 

Of course, I could keep the client name regardless of what's going on 
with the host name.  But then I would break the naming convention.  
And that's bad in an environment of about 100 Bacula clients...

A better solution would be to rename all entries in the DB from 
"oldclient-fd" to "newclient-fd".  The next incremental of "newclient-fd"
would just be an appendix to existing data.

Best regards,

        Robert

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