Re: Changing the name of a machine.

[Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>]

On 06/26/14 08:06, Stuart Turner wrote:
> Would it be possible to completely close that account, deleting all storage
> so I can start again now that I (somewhat) know what I'm doing?

I suppose so, but why?  That seems a bit of an extreme solution to a
purely cosmetic issue.

Colin Percival

> On 23/06/2014 20:25, Colin Percival wrote:
>> On 06/23/14 04:07, Stuart Turner wrote:
>>> I'm pretty new to using Tarsnap and Linux in general so please forgive
>>> me if I missed something obvious.
>>> 
>>> I'd really like to change the name of the machine I'm backing up on the
>>> website, that's because throughout my trial and error I have three or
>>> four machines with the same name in the web panel. I am using one of
>>> them successfully, it's been running for a few weeks now without any
>>> problems whatsoever.
>>> 
>>> So is this possible, and if so can someone point me in the right 
>>> direction please?
> 
>> This isn't possible right now, sorry.  The good news is that the machine
>> name is only used for displaying on the website, so it doesn't really
>> matter very much...
> 
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Colin Percival
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