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From: kak@stc-auts.UUCP (Kris Kugel)
Newsgroups: news.misc,comp.sources.wanted
Subject: trying to automaticly archive news (indexing)
Keywords: automatic archive tape indexing
Message-ID: <236@stc-auts.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jan 88 00:06:24 GMT
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Organization: Storage Technology Corp, Louisville, CO
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Posted: Thu Jan  7 17:06:24 1988

I think that there are some "automatic archive" systems, maybe
somebody from one of them can give me some suggestions.

We keep a lot of articles around, but the size is swamping us.
for one thing, backing up that disk partition is a pain.
Anyhow, we'd like to be able to back the stuff onto tape, but
still have it accessable in a useful fashion.

Our current scheme is (external feed) > ..spool/news > ..spool/oldnew > tape

Our system administrator here suggested that we might look
at logging significent information in a database, 
so that we can reference both new and old articles which 
bear on whatever our current problems are, and tell us where
to go to find the article.

rough example:
DatabasePrompt> search sources:vt100 
    A new vt100termcap --> tape AA12:comp/sources/misc/112
    VT100tool: vt100emulation for Suns --> news:comp/sources/unix/325
    vtem: curses based vt100 emulation --> oldnews:comp/sources/unix/250
    . . .

We would like rnews, expire, and <the backup-news-to-tape-utility>
to all update the database, so that the contents and locations of
the articles listed in the database are always correct.
None of us has time to write reviews of the articles, these entries
need to be made automaticly.

Any knowledgable comments from out there?

	Kris A. Kugel
	Storage Tek:    ...{ uunet!nbires, hao, ihnp4 }!stcvax!stc-auts!kak