Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!cass.ma02.bull.com!mips2!rws1!mwarren From: mwarren@rws1.ma30.bull.com (Mark Warren) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: How to switch to a new news server Message-ID: Date: 11 Jun 91 10:35:23 GMT References: <1991Jun10.125338.12502@phri.nyu.edu> Sender: @mips2.ma30.bull.com Organization: Bull HN Informations Systems Inc. Lines: 30 roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) writes: > The problem is, we don't want to invalidate everybody's .newsrc >file. Is there any reasonable way to make the article numbers (i.e. >contents of the active file) on the new sun news server match those on the >old vax news server, and stay in sync? The good news is, the answer is very simple. The bad news is, the answer is a resounding NO. All you can do is, starting at midnight, or some other quiet time, shut down all internal and external posting sources, then copy the entire news spool hierarchy, and the active file, from the old machine to the new machine. Then, rebuild history, and now bring up the new machine. Tell everyone in the world to stop reading news on the old machine and start on the new. The only other addition I can think of is for the old machine to NFS mount the news spool directory on the new machine while people are transitioning. Keeping two machines, both running as servers, in sync, is impossible for more than a few minutes. Sorry. OH PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, let SOMEONE tell me I am wrong!!!! -- == Mark Warren Bull HN Information Systems Inc. == == (508) 294-3171 (FAX 294-3020) 300 Concord Road MS836A == == M.Warren@bull.com Billerica, MA 01821 ==