Creating a backup news server

[Russ Allbery]

Stephen Kitchener <stephen at g6dzj.demon.co.uk> writes:

> I am in the process trying to create a backup news server, so that it
> contains the news in the primary.

> This is a little odd in that the news that the server currently holds
> has never been expired and I would like to be able to keep the
> articals. They are from sources that don't exist now and therefore would
> be very difficult to get.

> What I have been trying to do is to setup a new inn server so that I
> can, once a day, sync the news from the priamry to the secondary.

This can work, although if you have a regular network connection between
the systems you may instead want to follow the instructions in the INN FAQ
for transferring all articles from the main server to the backup and then
set up a feed from the main server to the backup that uses Xref slaving.
Then the backup server will also have the same article numbers (your
current method is not guaranteed to assign the same numbers).

> nntpget: cannot connect to gonzo

> If I run strace on the command I get

Your strace seems to indicate that nntpget was unable to look up the IP
address for gonzo.

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