Overview dump and restore tool

[Heath Kehoe]

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I'd forgotten about overchan... yeah, it's pretty much the same as 
ovrestore, except that overchan does not create the newsgroups in 
overview, which is required for a from-scratch restore.

Most of the effort went into the ovdump side.  The restore function is 
trivial by comparison.  I made up the dump format on the fly; I guess 
it could be modified to match what overchan uses.

By the way, we should extend the overview API so that OVsearch returns 
the 'Expires' value as well.  Weren't you making some changes to the 
overview API in the current tree a while back? I'll have to look that 
over.

- - h

On May 7, 2005, at 22:33, Russ Allbery wrote:

> Heath Kehoe <hakehoe at avalon.net> writes:
>
>> I have written a dump and restore tool for overview, which can be used
>> to convert an overview database from one storage method to another, or
>> to back up an overview database.
>
>> The dump tool acts as a client, doing OVsearch on every group in the
>> active file and printing to stdout a portable, text format dump of all
>> overview records.  The restore tool reads that dump and uses OVadd to
>> place the records into a new overview database.
>
> Isn't overchan usable as the restoration tool?  Or does its crosspost
> handling get in the way?
>
> Other than that, this sounds like a very good idea.  As soon as I get a
> chance to do some intensive INN work, I'll pick this up.
>
> -- 
> Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             
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>
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