Back In Time

Restore on another computer possible?

Asked by Jan Schnackenberg

Hi

I'm using Back In Time since quite some time. Seems to work wonderfully.

Now I'm migrating to an new computer. I thought I'd be able to just restore the Firefox, Thunderbird, etc. folders and be done with it, but....

Back In Time didn't show anything.

Ok, on inspection of the backup-directory structure it's obvious that the name of the computer being backed up is part of the folder-structure. But how to proceed in a case like this? Is this just not in the use-cases? ;)

Any hint's on how to do this? Would it be possible to just rename the "computername" folder to "newcomputername" (after disabling further backups on the old system) or would this cause unwanted side-effects?

Cheers, Jan

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Best Dan (danleweb) said : 		#1

If you completly moved to another computer than you can safely rename it.

For a temporary use in setting dialog in the first tab there is some advanced options so you can specify host/user/profile.

Regrads,
Dan

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Jan Schnackenberg (yehaa) said : 		#2

LOL...

Ok, uhm, thank god that this feature was not in the version I had on the new computer....

Because there's no "maverick" repository, yet, I hadn't activated the BIT repository yet. So I still had the old/original version installed.

I now have activated the lucid-repository, switched from backintime-kde to backintime-kde4 and... you're right of course. That checkbox on the first tab ist _EXACTLY_ what I needed.

Thanks Dan!