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Message 4259 - Posted: 17 Sep 2004, 17:16:15 UTC

I learned that I will be getting a new computer soon here at work. How do I go about backing up the current workunit and transferring it over to my new machine?

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Message 4283 - Posted: 17 Sep 2004, 19:54:12 UTC - in response to Message 4259.  

> I learned that I will be getting a new computer soon here at work. How do I go
> about backing up the current workunit and transferring it over to my new
> machine?
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> Thanks in advance.
>
>

you can't, the workunit must be crunched and returned by the same machine which downloaded it

one of the features of BOINC

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Message 4290 - Posted: 18 Sep 2004, 0:13:46 UTC

It is possible:

Backup your C:\Program Files\BOINC to a safe location (thumbdrive?)

Install your new computer, and copy the backupped BOINC folder to C:\Program Files. Then install the latest version of the BOINC core client.

All attached projects will still be there, including the work-units and they'll be processed from the point you stopped the old computer. If there were no changes in the project-apps, everything will work right away.

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Message 4304 - Posted: 18 Sep 2004, 10:43:24 UTC

There's discussion about it <a href="http://www.climateprediction.net/board/viewtopic.php?p=20927">here</a>. I'm not sure whether anyone has yet returned a completed WU to the server after such a process, but because of the length of CPDN models there is an accepted need for the facility.
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