news@orcenl.uucp (News adm'r, Bjorn Engsig) (11/16/88)
I recently had to do restore the news-spool and news-lib directories from
a backup, and this caused me some problems. The backups are made by our
computer department, and I think it was made concurrently with the
receiving of news from our backbone. This implied that the active file
did not correctly show the contents of the backup, and as a result, I got
messages like
Nov 15 16:28 hp4nl received <662@stag.UUCP> ng comp.os.minix,comp.sys.atari.st subj 'Re: MINIX ST and Supra hard disks' from trb@stag.UUCP ( Todd Burkey )
Nov 15 16:28 hp4nl Cannot install article as /usr/spool/news/comp/sys/atari/st/76: File exists
in the log-file, when we started receiving news again.
What is a safe scheme to do backups of the news directories?
Is it possible to 'turn off' all news activity by a simple mechanism,
which could then be part of the backup procedure.
Please mail replies, I will post a follow-up if there is an interest.
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Usenet administrator (Bjorn Engsig) at ORACLE Europe, Naarden, The Netherlands.
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