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Re: [Networker] Adding a new client with old name?

2004-02-26 15:31:03
Subject: Re: [Networker] Adding a new client with old name?
From: Tim Mooney <mooney AT DOGBERT.CC.NDSU.NODAK DOT EDU>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 14:31:01 -0600
In regard to: [Networker] Adding a new client with old name?, George...:

>B. Don't make any changes on NetWorker server end of things. Just run a
>full on the new client which will simply add new index entries to
>existing index from before. This has benefit of allowing you to recover
>older files from before if necessary?

I've always done this, and have never had a problem with it.  If you're
switching OS completely (like going from Windows to Linux, or possibly
even from one vendor UNIX to a different vendor UNIX) you may be better
of deleting the original client, but I would only do that if I had to.

Tim
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