Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!oddjob!matt
From: matt@oddjob.UChicago.EDU (Mr. nEtural)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: USENET restore from backup GOTCHA!
Message-ID: <14437@oddjob.UChicago.EDU>
Date: 29 Feb 88 23:11:10 GMT
References: <3003@codas.att.com>
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In article <3003@codas.att.com> mikel@codas.att.com (Mikel Manitius) writes:
) I restored two disks from backup tapes that were two days old. The other two
) disks didn't need restoring since they weren't repartitioned. USENET was on
) one of those disks.
) I had to bring the "history" file back up to sync with what was
) currently on disk by running a rebuild, no big deal.
) 
) The "Gotcha!" came when I realized that ... the "seq" file was two days old.
) New postings would use an Article-ID that was already in the history file,
) and be discarded as duplicates.  [edited]

I solved that and related problems here by sticking the lib directory
under the main news spool directory.  Now it all goes or none if it
does.  (If it all goes, I fetch it all from a neighboring campus site.)

				Matt