Creating a backup news server

[Stephen Kitchener]

On Friday 31 Dec 2004 18:07, Russ Allbery wrote:
Hi Russ,

Yes thanks - I will look at that - I hadn't thought it all the way though had 
I.

Steve


> 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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