Moving newsgroups with posts

[Praveen Ramaswamy]

Thanks Divya & Russ Allbery, It is working!! However I noticed that my new
server is receiving posts only of this month i.e "11/x/04" (x is any date in
this month). What is making it to filter the rest? I increased
"remember:/200" but it did not help. 

Regards
Praveen R

-----Original Message-----
From: Divya Sundaram [mailto:divya at avnika.com] 
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 6:59 PM
To: 'Praveen Ramaswamy'
Cc: inn-workers at isc.org
Subject: RE: Moving newsgroups with posts


Praveen,

I don't believe that you can copy CNFS buffers from one system to
another - especially from type of a system to another.

You're better off using an alternate approach as described in one
of the FAQs at http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/inn.html#S6.4.

Hopefully this helps.


-----Original Message-----
From: inn-workers-bounce at isc.org [mailto:inn-workers-bounce at isc.org]On
Behalf Of Praveen Ramaswamy
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 12:28 AM
To: inn-workers at isc.org
Subject: Moving newsgroups with posts


Hi,

I am trying to move news groups and posts from INN 2.2 on HPUX to Redhat EN
3.0. INN 2.4. I have INN up and working fine on redhat, I could even move
newsgroup, however I could not move posts which are already there is
respective newsgroup.

I am using CNFS storage method on both servers. I copied directories from
/usr/local/spool/articles to new redhat server and executed following
command:

makedbz -i
        mv history.n.dir history.dir
        mv history.n.hash history.hash
        mv history.n.index history.index
        chmod 644 *

While running this, it throws a message "invalid message id". I thought
copying articles directory should help. But one question I am unable to
answer:

Even on my old server: Storage method is set to CNFS, hence it stores posts
in a buffer directory specified in cycbuff.conf. But how is it storing posts
in /usr/local/news/spool/articles ? Should I copy the buffers directory
instead ?

Regards
Praveen R