[BackupPC-users] mothballing a host's previous contents

[Paul F. <pg...@fo...>]

i'm pretty confident i'm okay on this, but just to be sure:

i have a host that i've reinstalled with a new OS.  i want to
keep its former backups around for quite a while, in case i need
something.  the hostname remains the same ("stump").  in the
backuppc configs, i've done this:

    mv pc/stump pc/oldstump
    mkdir pc/stump
    cp pc/oldstump/config.pl pc/stump
    chown -R backuppc:backuppc pc/stump

and then i edited conf/hosts to add a line for "oldstump".

is this sufficient?

there are other places where a machine's hostname is stored which
might cause the two trees' contents to be confused somehow later on?

paul
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 paul fox, pg...@fo... (arlington, ma, where it's 55.9 degrees)