Mark <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:1.9.43
Due to a hardware failure that resulted in a complete reinstall of the operating system (Mandrake linux 9.1) and leafnode, I now have 2 instances of leafnode as the original could not copied from the original pc to the new pc for a couple of days.
What leafnode versions are you running?
If it's leafnode 1, do the spool directories have the same name length? /var/spool/news and /usr/spool/good are evidently same name length, /leafnode and /usr/local/var/spool/news are not. This is important for the hash function.
So what I have is this:
1) Pc #1 has all OLD leafnode posts and configuration up to and including 02/05/04. This is the pc that went down with hardware failures.
2) Pc #2 has all NEW leafnode posts and configuration up to and including 02/10/04, but nothing previous to 02/05/04.
I backup the interesting.groups and leaf.node every night so all the article counts etc are still in sync and none were missed, however as shown above they are split accross 2 diferent pc's.
Does this mean that for each of the groups, the content in /var/spool/news/group/name on #1/OLD has files 2 to 1376 and #2/NEW has articles from 1377 to 2321, without overlap within a group?
N/A
If you have any number both in OLD and NEW, there is some effort necessary.
Is there any way to merge leafnode #1 into leafnode # 2 pc or vice-versa?
Depends on the leafnode version how difficult or expensive that's going to be.
One caveat, there are literally hundreds of thousands of articles on pc #1. I am archiving, but not epxiring articles as I collect them for a database project I am working on....dont ask :)
What is the overall article count estimate? A million? Can you show your leafnode config file, REMEMBER TO WEED OUT USERNAMES AND PASSWORDS?
The config file is pretty well the default except for: expire = 500 groupexpire any.local.newsgroup = 500
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