move articles to another server

["Miquel van Smoorenburg"]

In article <20051025235209.GB21974 at shuttle.vanvergehaald.nl>,
Toon van der Pas  <toon at hout.vanvergehaald.nl> wrote:
>On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 11:02:56PM +0000, "Miquel van Smoorenburg"  wrote:
>> In article <20051016085533.GA69302 at jdevoff.zssm.zp.ua>,
>> Eugeny N Dzhurinsky  <eugenydzh at jdevelop.com> wrote:
>> >On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 03:09:15AM +0800, Gea-Suan Lin wrote:
>> >> It's in FAQ:
>> >> http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/inn.html#S6.4
>> >
>> >Okay, I read this and I feel like I asked wrong question. I have
>> >archive of articles from old server, and I just installed INN on
>> >new server. I don't have access to old server now, but I still
>> >want to "import" all groups with messages from this directory.
>> >Is it possible at all?
>> 
>> First you should create a valid active file with all the
>> newsgroups you want to carry - that should not be a problem,
>> I guess.
>> 
>> Then you can follow the advice in the FAQ, but instead of using
>> the perl and innxmit stuff, just use 'rnews < articlefile' for
>> each article to post it locally.
>
>Miquel, what is the great advantage of this approach over restoring
>the article spool and running makehistory? Running rnews on every
>article will take forever, won't it?

I don't know, I just offered an alternative to the method in the
FAQ, which assumes you have a running server with valid spool
*and* an existing history file, both of which the OP didn't have.

There's one more issue, I don't think that makehistory rebuilds
the active file, or does it ?

Mike.

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