saving work during a system rebuild?

[grv]

Some of the boxes I fold on are lab servers. After reading around a bit, I get the impression that you can d/l work on one box, fold elsewhere, and u/l from the original box, but you cannot d/l work on one system, then u/l from another.

I have to rebuild a lab box with 85% of a gromac done. I've had to do it before. I never really paid attention before, but I imagine that when I've copied the fah folder before for reuse on the rebuilt box, the u/l must have failed. I'm pretty sure I don't have logs to verify one way or the other at this point. Is the "uniqueness" of a box stored within the fah folder so that what I'm doing is really working, or is it elsewhere (registry, etc)?

Any ideas as to how to get around this?

[NiTrO bOiE]

I don't quite understand your question. Fold elsewhere as in another box? Or another location?

[grv]

Same box, with a total reload of OS and software, so kind of a different box as far as the OS is concerned. If the security and encryption for the fah client is such that you must upload a wu from the same system you downloaded it from (yes?), then A) does the reload make this for all intents and purposes a "different" box from the one where I got the work and B) is there anything in particular aside from the folding@home dir that I could keep so that I can successfully submit the completed wu?

This time around I saved the pandegroup key from the registry too, just to see if that helps.

[NiTrO bOiE]

Tuff call... I would think that as long as the User ID stayed the same it would be fine. (User ID, not the Username.) Just my 2 cents.

[Edward2]

GRV, excellent move saving the PandeGroup registry key. That is the trick to copying a WU from one computer to another, or saving a WU during a HD format and Windows reinstall.

BTW - you can d/l a WU on one computer and then u/l the completed WU on a different computer, if you copy the registry key to the new computer. Just make sure that you delete the registry key from the original computer, because you do not want multiple computers to have the same key value.

[grv]

Cool - salvaged a 50 pointer:cool: