Recover by spooldir

[Jeffrey M.Vinocur]

On Jan 11, 2005, at 9:44 AM, Alex Huth wrote:

> After a disk crash the only i could rescue is the spool dir. Is there 
> a possibility to install a new inn and take the spool for the new 
> installation?

Yes.

First install INN and configure it.  Be sure to use the same storage 
method in storage.conf (if you have the spool with subdirectories for 
newsgroup name components and one article per numbered file, that's 
tradspool).

Your most difficult task will be making a new active file.  Hopefully 
you can get your active file from wherever you originally did.  If not, 
you can use the spool as a starting point, but it will take a little 
fiddling.  (Don't worry about the high and low watermarks in the active 
file being correct for your spool, but the groups need to be listed.)

Once you have an INN with an active file including the groups in your 
spool, make sure INN is not running, and use `makehistory -O` to 
rebuild the history and overview databases.  If you're running a recent 
release of INN, the active file watermarks will be automatically 
updated the next time INN starts.  Otherwise, as soon as INN is 
running, run `ctlinnd renumber "" ` so that happens.


-- 
Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org