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On Mar 6, 2013 10:46 AM, "Michael Stowe" <mstowe AT chicago.us.mensa DOT org> wrote:
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>
> > 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)
>
> I *have* tried this, just last week, in fact, and it worked perfectly well.
>
> > 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. You could continue to use that path in rsync should
> > you decide to move the data to /var/data1 by repointing it to the new
> > directory. BackupPC would know no differently. This example was a linux
> > host. You also didn't mention what type of host it was, but in the case
> > of rsync, this would work for a windows host as well.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > --Mark
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Maarten [mailto:mtp AT milieudefensie DOT nl]
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2013 8:49 AM
> > To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
> > Subject: [BackupPC-users] Keep backup data when source host/directory
> > changes
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a problem for which I'm not sure a proper solution exists, but let
> > me try anyway.
> >
> > In my current setup, I have a BackupPC server with about 4.0TB of storage
> > of which 2.7TB is in use. One host is responsible for most of the backup
> > data (~ 1.5TB), and yesterday I migrated this host to a different server.
> > Added to that, I moved the data to a different/more sane place on the
> > filesystem.
> >
> > So now I have the situation that BackupPC has up to a year of backups of
> > the old host, but there is not enough room to start backing up the new
> > host/directories. And even if I did, it would be silly to backup the same
> > data twice.
> >
> > So my question is: can anybody think of an elegant way to re-use the
> > currently backed up data so that I can keep the current backups and not
> > start from scratch? The not-so-elegant solution that comes to mind is to
> > rename the old host on the BackupPC server and create symlinks so that the
> > old directories still exist on the new server.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Maarten
> >
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I also can confirm renaming the old servers backups to new name 'just works'.
- Trey
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