Re: Backup of the news spool
Chris Niekel <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.sn |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 06:58:30PM -0200, Junior wrote:
> Hello. I'm using sn with remote and local groups and very happy with
> it. I need to make backups of the local groups, but IMHO "tar"-ring
> directly the directory /var/spool/news would make corrupted backups. I
> though about using sncat. If it's a good path, how about the metadata?
> And to restore the backups? Any clue?
There isn't much magic in the spool. The remote groups have a .outgoing
dir, which is a symlink, so backing those up requires a program that
understands symlinks. For localgroups, just copy the dot-files in the
directory as well.
Chris
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