Re: If you change machines .. what goes with the id thing?

[Max Danielsson <maxdata1@gmail.com>]

I've previously heard Dr Percival say that calling it "Machine name"
might not have been the best choice. It's more of a name for the
backup-archive, it's in no way tied to the actual machine, beyond the
fact that the initial one created the keyfile.

Also, make sure to make backups of your keyfile, it's the only way to
decrypt the data you have stored in tarsnap, burn it on disk, save it
on a usb-stick, print it on paper, anything. Your account password
can't help you if you loose it. Not even Percival can help you recover
the data.

On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
> The machine I originally logged into and uploaded from tarsnap with
> was a vmguest running on win 7.
>
> It was a debian linux install.  I really wanted a gentoo linux install
> but had too much trouble getting it to work as a vm guest.
>
> I've now gotten a gentoo VM running and would sooner use it to do all
> up/down loading to/from tarsnap.  I'm just more familiar with gentoo.
>
> I'm not sure how the mach. ID thing works but will it need to be
> changed?
>
> Both VMs are running on the same host machine.
>
>