[leafnode-list] Merging 2 instances of Leafnode

[Mark]

Matthias Andree wrote:

> Mark <lists at greplinux.dyndns.org> writes:
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> 
>>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?
1.9.43
> 
> 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.

The spool directories are the same length.


> 
> 
>>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.
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> 
> 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?

This is correct
> 
> If you have any number both in OLD and NEW, there is some effort necessary.
N/A

> 
> 
>>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?

There are approx 700,000 articles

The config file is pretty well the default except for:
expire =  500
groupexpire any.local.newsgroup = 500


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