If you have to rename host in BackupPC you have to:
- Stop BackupPC service:
systemctl stop backuppc
- Change the host name in host file (/etc/backuppc/hosts) to new name
- Rename the pl file in pc folder (/etc/backuppc/pc), ie:
cd /etc/backuppc/pc mv oldname.pl newname.pl
- Rename directory in the backup location (I my case backup is storing in the location /data/BackupPC)
cd /data/BackupPC/pc/ mv oldname newname
- Start BackupPC service
systemctl start backuppc
- Pray
- Check if it works
Sometimes you have to run command as user who cannot login (shell set to /bin/false, /usr/sbin/nologin or something like this) in example for testing BackupPC where backuppc user usually cannot login but you have to run ssh command manually for the first time to add host to known_hosts.
Instead of ugly copping known_host file you can run:
sudo -u backuppc /usr/bin/ssh -l username remotehost
I think it's nicer way.
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