If you want to fully rename a host, you must (assuming Ubuntu standard
install):

1. Edit the /etc/backuppc/hosts
2. Rename any /etc/backuppc/hostname.pl and .pl.old files
3. Rename the directory in /var/lib/backuppc/pc/

Attached is my bash script to do this with some error checking.

Regards,
Tyler

On 2011-11-24 11:47, Sorin Srbu wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> The recent ClientNameAlias-hint I got on this list, got me thinking a bit.
> 
> Suppose I want to change the already set hostname from the anonymous 
> "machine001.domain.local" to "adminstation", can I do that somehow, without 
> botching the old backed up files for "machine001.domain.local"?
> 
> Any gotchas'?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> 
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All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure 
contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, 
security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this 
data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense.
http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d

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