Hi,

16.05.2008 10:17, Robert Wirth wrote:
> 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?  

Yes, that's possible. If you know a bit about SQL and understand the 
database layout, this is simple.

Even if you feel safe with these  items I recommend doing a catalog 
dump before you change the name, and try a job from the renamed client 
immediately.

> 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...

Yes.

> 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.

Remember that you have to change the configuration accordingly...

Arno


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> 
>       Robert
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