Recovering local articles that are not visible

Nick Giles nick.giles at ontology.com
Tue Mar 16 17:41:29 UTC 2010


Superb, that's what I was after. Our server is only tiny, a few thousand 
posts, so that ran and recovered the articles in a few seconds.

Thanks,

Nick

Russ Allbery wrote:
> Nick Giles <nick.giles at ontology.com> writes:
> 
>> That did seem to be the tool that kept coming up, thanks for that. The
>> issue now is that we've got inn 2.3.5, which lacks tdx-util. I can't
>> upgrade the application itself at the moment, but I've tried using a
>> locally built copy of 2.4.6 to do the repair. I've fed it a copy of
>> inn.conf that the innupgrade script fixed up, and tdx-util will now run
>> and report details of some of the groups, however the -R option results
>> in an empty overview file. The articles are still in the filesystem, but
>> I'm a little concerned about the comment "the name of the file must
>> match the article number of the article" in the tdx-util man page. The
>> articles directory doesn't look like that. For instance one of the
>> missing articles is in:
> 
>> articles/time-00/61/85/0510-4bba
> 
> Oh, you're not using tradspool; you're using timehash.  Unfortunately, the
> selective overview rebuild only works with tradspool as the storage
> method (even if you upgraded).
> 
> The blunt instrument is makehistory -O, which will do a complete overview
> rebuild.  Unfortunately, expect it to take a long time.
> 



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