Re: Changing the name of a machine.

[jerry <jerry@tr2.com>]

I had a similar issue.  Some few years ago, I created a tarsnap account 
and put
$5 in it to try it out.  For some reason I don't remember - didn't 
work?  Got busy?
Whatever.... I didn't use it at that time.

Fast forward to 2014: I have good reason for offsite backup.  Due to 
certain factors,
I have moved to a paperless office.  This makes my computer data 
extremely valuable.
So - it's kept on a Linux server-class machine with ECC ram.  It's 
backed up every
night with rsync to a second "hot-spare" server.  It's also backed up 
to a NAS box - there, I
have 7 backups, one called "monday" another called "tuesday" etc.

So I tried tarsnap again.  Hmm, what was that admin password?  Darned 
if I know.  No
way to recover or reset it, either.  So I started up another tarsnap 
account, put $50 in it,
because this time I really plan to use it.  Cool, now it works.  Can't 
use my old/preferred
username though :(.

It probably makes sense to not have a password recovery function - one 
of those things that
email you a link.... what if somebody hacked my email?  Say somebody at 
the ISP watching the packets go into my machine?  Or maybe somebody 
could hack my DNS records so my mailserver seemed to be in North Korea?  
Just thinking about this stuff makes me paranoid...

                - Jerry Kaidor ( jerry@tr2.com )



On 06/27/2014 01:00, Colin Percival wrote:
> 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...