Recover by spooldir

[Alex Huth]

On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 10:25 -0500, Jeffrey M.Vinocur wrote:
> 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.
> 
Sounds good, but doesn´t work. After installing, configuring INN and makehistory -O i got error messages:

tradindex: indexed inode mismatch

Any ideas?


Alex Huth