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diff --git a/manual/en/060-backing-up.mdwn b/manual/en/060-backing-up.mdwn index 311f1174..16ccc5d2 100644 --- a/manual/en/060-backing-up.mdwn +++ b/manual/en/060-backing-up.mdwn @@ -210,8 +210,22 @@ instead: you run Obnam on a different machine, and read the live data over the SFTP protocol. To do this, you specify the live data location (the `root` setting, or -as a command line argument to `obnam backup`) using an SFTP URL. -That's all there is to it. +as a command line argument to `obnam backup`) using an SFTP URL. You +should also set the client name explicitly. Otherwise Obnam will use +the hostname of the machine on which it runs as the name, and this can +be highly confusing: the client name is `my-laptop` and the server is +`down-with-clowns` and Obnam will store the backups as if the data +belongs to `my-laptop`. + +It gets worse if you backup your laptop as well to the same backup +repository. Then Obnam will store both the server and the laptop +backups using the same client name, resulting in much confusion to +everyone. + +Example: + + obnam backup -r /mnt/backups sftp://server.example.com/home \ + --client-name=server.example.com Configuration files: a quick intro ---------------------------------- |